Marked

, #9

English language

Published Nov. 11, 2018 by Little, Brown Book Group Limited.

ISBN:
978-0-356-50721-7
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4 stars (11 reviews)

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reviewed Marked by Benedict Jacka (Alex Verus, #9)

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4 stars

Alex Verus, my favorite episodic British mage. Alex has come a long way from his little storefront helping adepts and normies. He strides on the line between Light and Dark. Mainly finding a path of survival through it all for himself and his little band of mages. Not much has changed in that. He is playing bigger games on the council, but the outcome is still relatively the same. Stay alive.

We've been with Verus for nine novels now. The books are heavy in dialog and narrative with sporadic fires of magecraft. By book 9 I don't know if we need such a breakdown in how the politics work. I kind of got glassy-eyed at being reeducated at how the council works. Anyone in their right mind wouldn't be starting this late in the series so let's roll.

Going beyond the series is in a pretty good place. Relationships are …

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  • Fiction, fantasy, contemporary
  • Fiction, fantasy, urban