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So time to get book 2...

More 3.5 stars. An interesting sort of magic in this series. There are some with knacks, which can be pretty powerful, & then there are the powder mages who have a very specific sort of magic dealing with bullets & gunpowder. Above them there are some others who seem to be able to do damn near anything. It didn't make a whole lot of sense, unfortunately. Interesting, but without any sort of rationale to hold it together, it never worked as well as it should have.
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After reading (and infatuated with) Django Wexler's Shadow Campaigns series, I think the series has set a high bar of fun and quality for military fantasy fiction (not that I read military fantasy before and after this series, so my judgment is obviously biased here). But then another Goodreads fellow member seems really like the Powder Mage series, I think this series deserves a try, although I am already turned off by the cover. Boy, I am glad I tried this one. I like this series in a differen
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