Spellmonger

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Mr Terry Lee Mancour

Terry Mancour

Minalan gave up a promising career as a professional warmage to live the quiet life of a village spellmonger in the remote mountain valley of Boval. It was a peaceful, beautiful little fief, far from the dangerous feudal petty squabbles of the Five Duchies, on the world of Callidore. There were cows. Lots of cows. And cheese. For six months things went well: he found a quaint little shop, befriended the local lord, the village folk loved him, he found a sharp young apprentice to help out, and best yet, he met a comely young widow with the prettiest eyes . . . Then one night Minalan is forced to pick up his mageblade again to defend his adopted home from the vanguard of an army of goblins - gurvani, they call themselves - bent on a genocidal crusade against all mankind. And that was the good news. The bad news was that their shamans were armed with more magical power than has been seen since the days of the ancient Imperial Magocracy - and their leader, a mysterious, vengeful force of hate and dark magic, is headed directly to Boval Vale, along with a massive invading army of gurvani. The good people of Boval and their spellmonger have only one choice: to hole up in the over-sized Boval Castle and hope they can endure a siege against hundreds of thousands of goblins. When the people look to him for hope, Minalan does his best, but the odds are depressing: there are multitudes of goblins, and they want Boval Vale as a staging ground for a vengeful invasion of the whole Five Duchies. Add to his troubles a jealous rival mage, a motley band of mercenaries, a delusional liege lord who insists victory is at hand despite the hordes at his door, a dour castellan, a moody, pregnant girlfriend and a catty ex-girlfriend who specializes in sex magic - all trapped in a stinking, besieged castle with no hope of rescue, and you'll understand why Minalan is willing to take his chances with the goblins. All that stands between the gurvani horde and the people of the Five Duchies is one tired, overwhelmed baker's son who wanted nothing more than to be a simple village spellmonger!

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Author

Mr Terry Lee Mancour

Pages

624

Publisher

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Published Date

2016-01-06

ISBN

1522975039 9781522975038

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"This is a great series let me know what you think when you read it. "

Melissa Craig

"I'd been looking forward to this series cause it seemed to have a lot of potential for a new fantasy world I could immerse myself into. There's definitely a lot that's done well, like the author is clearly good at worldbuilding, but also a lot not done so well, like doing way too much worldbuilding and shoving everything in the story in info dumps left and right, that, among other things, consistently kept me from getting immersed in the story. <br/>Also, I don't mind the idea of a protagonist with a more realistic portrayal of one's sex life over the damn near celibate heroes in a ton of stories these days, but this was... Idk, weird? I mean, that scene toward the end could've been pretty comical, and it kinda still was, but that wasn't the tone at all. Most of it felt unnecessary or irrelevant.<br/>I think I'm just not jiving with the author's writing style, not small stuff like word choice but bigger stuff, like what we consider important enough to add or focus on in the story.<br/>I finally read this because books 1-4 are on sale right now and I wanted to make sure I should buy them... But I don't think I will. I might come back someday and try this series again."