Gods and Magic

Rising of a Mage #2

by J.M. Fosberg

This is the second book in the Rising of a Mage Trilogy.Miskrull was a creature of legend. Every dwarf had heard the stories about how he had nearly eradicated thier race on more than one occasion. Now, he had already destroyed one of their kingdoms and was coming for Evermount. Their only hope was Grizzle. With his newly acquired hammer, blessed by the dwarf god, Bordin, and his friends, who each was sent by the gods of men to help protect against the minion of chaos.How much help will the mage, Anwar, be without submitting to the will of one of the gods of magic? How far will he be willing to go, when the life of the one he loves hangs in the balance? Will he sacrifice his beliefs? His very soul?Anwar will need the help of all his friends, new and old, to overcome the challenges in front of him. The fate of the world may depend upon it.

Genres: Magic, Fantasy

188 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 2, 2013

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lot of people rated this second book low. I think I can see why. The end of book one and the beginning of book two don't exactly mesh or merge well. The second book isn't a nice fluid transition from the first. In book two, three years have past. New characters are introduced out of nowhere and all of a sudden, deities and religion take the focus. In the first book, the gods and religion aren't mentioned even once in passing.

There are many gods and one of the evil ones, the god of chaos wants to destroy the dwarves. Some of the good gods pick champions (which are the current characters plus some new ones) and they race to aid the dwarves from being destroyed by the monster the evil god sent at the dwarves.