Status Updates From The Innocent Mage (Kingmake...

There are two peoples Oaken and Dorian. Dorian as magic wielders and Oaken as inferiors. It is even illegal for the two races to marry.

Slow start... hoping for the best though.

I’m quite enjoying this. A few characterizations I felt are... odd. But on the whole quite enjoyable

I'm going to finish this tomorrow

Damn Durm is a c*nt. Fane isn't much better
And fuck Dathne. Asher has literally lost everything and she don't give two shits

Jesus, Asher's brothers are fucking crazy. Talk about dang brutal. He should have let Gar string them up, Jesus

Well Fane is a bitch but we knew that
So is Dana
And let's go with Dathne as well

I honestly love Asher and Gar's friendship

I love Asher and Prince Dar XD

I got this and “the library at mount char” on sale or free or something through audiobooks. “Library” was really good! This is a bit cringe so far. I think I would have loved it as a teenager, but now it feels super cliche and tropey. And the reader has an accent I find a little annoying. I don’t know if I’ll finish it. I’ve chosen silence a couple times when I could have listened to it...

Really trying to catch up

Boring, tried

Can confidently say this is not the type of story I was expecting based on the cover, title, and back blurb. Gonna keep going, but not really crazy about the farm boy prophecy that doesn't seem to be going anywhere and the backwoods surliness used as the only real conflict.

Seen this around forever and finally decided to grab a copy at the library while my little guy was handing in his reading worksheet (he picked a Pete the Cat book as his reward for reading by the way).

This one grabbed me right away.

We'll just pretend leaving that thing unguarded on anyone shelf isn't horribly stupid, but at least Barl covered they're idiot asses. So now he has to use Gar somehow to bring the wall down. It be handy if Dat's prophecy could warn her about shit like this.

Inside is all kinds of nasty shit, and some useful stuff. He of course immediately uses the spell to see past the wall and finds Morg, the ancient enemy. He flees back, but Morg follows him and takes over his body. Just a piece of Morg and he can be killed now (just this piece probably) so he has to be careful. He tries to take over the weather magic from the orb, but Barl warded it against him.

They make up. When they get to the city, surprise, King is alive. Dumbass. Dat and Matt are glad he's back, but then Asher gets a fever and won't wake up. Probably his magic kicking in. While he's out they find a magic locked library. Borne the master magician is after Barl's spells and fuck what the King says about danger. He finds her diary because she doesn't protect it otherwise, of course.

Find his brothers and shock- their father is dead. 8 months ago. He lost it over Asher going, went out into a storm and got killed. Seems odd since he didn't seem to give a shit until he was gone, but eh. His brother beat him and banish him from the coast. Gar figures the King is dead, wild storms happened twice before when the monarch lost it in death. So they head back to the city.

They get to his home, do the parade and it goes fine. Back at the palace the king decides to do some weather work despite being told not too and gets a fever a raves and starts tearing the place up magically. Asher and Gar go out on a boat and the magic storm hits tearing the town up and knocking Gar into the ocean. Asher saves him. Asher goes to check on his family.

The king asks Asher to wait to leave until after the royal visit to his home. He agrees, but on the way Gar gets nosy and finds out Asher is leaving and throws fit like a baby. The secratary and Willy are happy they're at odds, but sad Asher is just resigning. Dat sees he won't be anyway, so like I thought his father and probably everyone will be dead etc etc.

So the boy admits his guilt. They cut his had off right there to get it over with. Gar thinks it's a stupid law. Asher falls for Dat during the year. Wins the kings tournament somehow. Asks her to leave with him, she says no. King gets ill, Weather Working wears on you it seems, though since they've been doing this for 600 years you'd think everyone would know that. Fane is a bitch.

Spate gets to town, Gar sends Asher to make sure he's not being ruffed up. Dat has a vision of the end of the world. Dat decides to kill Spate before he can talk, gets Asher to get her in. But the poison food is ruined, so so much for that. Asher talks down to Olken wanting to lynch Spate. Gar is translating 400 year old texts. Wants Asher at the execution. Asher has mentioned his Da etc too much. He's dead I bet.

Does this magic involve shouting? Killing animals? What? Idiot. So Spake, the idiot, is shipped to the city to be executed. The princes line is called the Usurper in Dat's prophecy. This is all being setup as the Olken are some poor oppressed people, but this system has been working fine for 600 years. And it's going to be a problem for Ahsher to be a mage if he's not supposed to do magic.

Asher goes about his stable duties fine, then Gar says come with to watch a trial. Asher sides against the greedy asshole, Gar approves. Gar's secretary does not like Asher. Of course. Then it's off to a privy meeting. Head nemesis Jarralt doesn't like Asher either. Dat gets a message that someone broke the first law- Olken do not do magic or the die. How the hell do you get caught doing that?

Asher gets 25 whatever a week, doesn't seem to realize the city is probably more expensive than home. Buts heads with Matt, they bond over Dat being a pain in the ass. Dat and Matt are part of the circle and the End Times are here.

Asher sneaks off the to the city to make a fortune to support himself and his father. Has 7 brothers. Uses most of his money getting there. Dathne and Matt see him. The one has come. Asher runs into Prince Gar and the princes horse spooks from some fireworks going off (Dat's doing). Asher rounds the horse up, they chat, Dat gets the prince to hire Asher in the stables with Matt.

WhAt ThE hEcK gAr

I found this book again!!!
I thought I had lost it. I thought I had left it at work and it had ended up in the booksale bin. But as I was cleaning today, I found it in the bag I used when we went to the National Book Festival last fall. I guess cleaning is good for something!!

Asher being heartbroken breaks my heart.

It’s getting interesting, Asher is being thrown into the lions den it seems.