Reviewed: December 12th, 2025
Released: June 5th, 2020
Genre: Urban Fantasy
The sword chooses its wielder.
I never asked to be Blade Mage. My fellow wizards weren’t thrilled, either. Unfortunately, those weird old druids have a strict no returns policy.
So I left, and for the past few years, I’ve hidden from my responsibilities. But I always knew one day the Cabal would come looking for its precious sword.
And so they have, but only because a heinous crime has occurred…
A sorcerer has used forbidden magic to slay a fellow wizard. It’s an open and shut case. The killer admitted it. He also stands accused of kidnapping a child, who is still missing, but they say that isn’t my problem. No, as Blade Mage, I’m not supposed to play paranormal detective. The Cabal only expects one thing of me—they want me to play executioner.
Problem is…
The accused is my best friend.
And before I chop off his head, I want to know the truth. But the path is filled with shifty wizards, fearsome witches, insidious demons, and supernatural conspirators at every turn.
It ain’t easy being the Blade Mage.
Helen’s Thoughts: 5/5
An excellent urban fantasy with a MMC who is the reluctant Blade Mage who no one believes can do the job. Combine him with a wacky friend who is completley unhinged but has a heart of gold, and you have a situation that can only ever go from bad to worse.
Wyatt is the Blade Mage trying to understand how his best friend is about to be executed for a murder he didn’t commit, but how does he prove that? Especially when everyone in power doesn’t believe he has the ability to wield the magical sword who chose him. The trouble is they have him believing he should never have been chosen either, undermining any confidence he may have had to begin with.
Welcome to a gritty magical world, the under belly of society and all the thugs that go with it. And yet Wyatt still holds true to who he is supposed to be. You get the feeling someone is actually enginnering the situation to ensure the Blade Mage is side lined and ridiculed. Doesn’t that make him ineffectual?
Interested to read more, as there is trouble looming. Shain is a great character, as is Axel. The three of them have a lot more chaos in their future!
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