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The Magi (The Martuk Series, Book Five) by Jonathan Winn

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2.0

I was given a complimentary copy of this book for judgement in the Indie Horror Book Awards 2018. Review to be posted at odbookreviews.com

Maybe I am missing something massive by not reading the first 4 in the series but I found this book to be very confusing. The lack of editing and run-on sentences didn't help (quote included below). I love a good run-on but some of these were too much, also many paragraphs starting with the word "and" was throwing me off. At times the poetic prose was beautiful but other times it was a verbose psychedelic nightmare. It was kind of hard to follow and it didn't seem to have a strong plot, read alone. I never felt drawn into the story and if it hadn't been so short I probably wouldn't have been able to finish it. In the end I was left with more questions than answers. If you like poetic dark fantasy you might enjoy this series, but start at the beginning maybe. The story was not scary and there were minor horror elements. Contains violence and gore.

"The rain having ended, the clouds above eerie and quiet, I looked at rows upon rows upon rows faces as the tower of water collapse, the water, harmless again, returning to lap the shore as, the wall of screams reaching me, two great wings grabbed me from behind, gripped me close and lifted me into a safe world of silence and darkest black."
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