The Accidental Sorcerer
byKE Mills aka Karen Miller
published by HarperVoyager in 2008read by Agamedes in June 2009
fantasy
book 1 of Rogue Agent
When I first read this book, the hero-being-tortured section was a shock. Other than that, it’s a pleasant -- light, humorous, exciting -- read. On the second reading, with the torture being expected, it was not so disturbing. Apart from that, it’s a great book: likeable characters, good magic, hero saving the day while discovering that he has super (magical) powers. In this book he’s a bumbling beginner who develops. In future books -- judging from the final chapter of this -- he will be pretending to be a bumbling beginner. A lot of escapist fun. PS: The author is Australian: so follow the Amazon link and buy it :-)
Agamedes' rating: 8 out of 10
21feb22: read it again. It's still an enjoyable book.
I still don't enjoy the torture scenes. Though I found [spoiler ahead] that it was less worrying because I knew that the hero would survive.
I do notice, this time, something annoying: Dialogue *not* in quotes -- which means that it is not, in fact, spoken. I've seen it in another book. Perhaps it's clever writing style. It's certainly annoying.
One thing I do like: the main characters all like each other. And help one another. It makes for very likeable characters.
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