Jane Glatt's Unmage
So maybe my problems with this book were about expectations, because it started strong, set fourteen years after the first two, with Kara's younger half brother enmeshed in their mother's world of magic and politics, and she’s trying to get him to escape and come live on their guild-free island, and I was like, cool, he'll escape, and they’ll learn magic and take on the bad mages and reform the system. But instead he basically spends the entire book on the run trying to escape, just wandering around and hiding for two thirds of this novel, it’s very tiresome. And then the end isn’t triumphant, it’s grisly and sad. Also, a lot more typos in this one. Lots of references to offscreen rape and torture. Not a good time. B-.
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