Emma was a normal teenage girl before her twin nearly burned her to death. When Emma and her brother discover they have magic, they are visited by an archmage of a school for mages. They embark on a journey, but it becomes fraught with peril as a deranged cult captures them. Using every trick in their book, and with the help of unexpected allies, they struggle to not only survive in the … only survive in the wilderness but foil a dangerous plot involving a world-ending artifact.
Can Emma and her allies overcome overwhelming odds and stop the cult before it’s too late?
The first book in a new series by author Dayne Edmondson, “Mageborn” takes place twenty years after “Shadows Fall” and features cameos from characters past.
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Just finished Mageborn and thoroughly enjoying it. Can’t wait to get the Cursed Tower (the next book in the series). This book held my interest all the way through the book & left me wanting more.
A great fantasy novel. Set for teens but I loved it (70’s).
I really liked this book and the author’s style. I held my breath with every breath. I highly recommend it.
Overpriced at ‘free’. I put it down twice because the writing was so poor but then tried to slog through because of the other glowing reviews – and now that I am finished, I truly do not understand how anyone could glow about this mess.
First the story – 16 yo kids discover they have magic, a mage from the magic school is called to come take them, and adventures ensue. *yawn* The characters – 16 yo twins are at the core, but it quickly shifts to being primarily about the girl. There is zero literary character development. She goes from child who has one nearly fatal magic event to leader of the pack for no clear or justifiable reason other than she is awake and there. The writing – seriously? using a grammar check program would have been an improvement. There are subject-verb agreement errors, pronoun reference errors, logic flow horrors, dangling and misplaced modifiers. Trite expressions abound, and there are cases where the entirely wrong word is used (it is NOT ‘jangling by a precipice – the word would be ‘dangling’).
There really isn’t a good reason to read this book.
A great blend of science fiction and fantasy. The two main characters are a brother and sister age16. They inadvertently find out they have magic and are sent to train at the wizards tower. During the trip which is filled with adventures of its own they two find out they have technology embedded within there bodies in the form of nanites and a AI that controls them. Looking forward to seeing the brother and sister mature and finding out there origins. Some things the father said make me wonder that all is not what it seams looking forward to the next two books in the trilogy.
Kind of a dry telling of a story but spoken through the eyes of Emma. She and her twin brother were newly awakened mages given the opportunity to join other new mages to learn their skills. They were off to Tar Ebon and the Tower of the Seven Stars, a tower where new Mages go to learn. However, they met with many challenges and somehow managed to prevail. The characters to me seemed one dimensional. I wish there would have been more depth to them. I didn’t have a sense of deep feelings coming off them. The scenes were pretty well described and could picture myself being there. This does seem like a story written for the YA genre and would most likely be interesting to that age group. Overall, I enjoyed the read.
Fast pace