Review: Mageborn: A Seven Stars Novel

Mageborn: A Seven Stars Novel by Dayne Edmondson
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
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The author provided me an ARC copy. I am providing an honest review.

Mageborn is a bit away from the normal fare that I read, but one does have to broaden their horizons. It opens with an event from the past that would appear to have an influence on the story as we read it. Other than to introduce younger versions of some of the characters we later meet, it kind of confused me. When we get to the story proper everything started to mesh and the story progressed nicely.

We have a young lady and her brother, Emma and Ethan, who at a later age than normal (16) develop magic, and in the process, scare the town to death. Their parents think that it would be a good idea to send them off for training, even though most children have had training since 10. Off they go for the training, but they are delayed along the way as people who are against them attack and in great numbers.

An interesting feature is that some of the people in the story talk of things the others do not understand. It leads me to believe that somehow they were dropped into this world and are making the best of it.

Characters that are prominent to the story seem to be well developed. This is especially true for Emma as we tend to see the story from her eyes.

It is a YA book but I think anyone who would like fantasy books would enjoy this story. There are large amounts of death in the story, mostly of an impersonal nature, and how it affects the people in the story is a minor point of the story. If deaths are not your cup of tea, then you might not enjoy it. They are not gory, just needed to advance the story. Age range would be teenager to adult as my suggestion. I did enjoy it.

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