wyvernfriend
Written on May 1, 2012
And then everything blows up, quite literally, he tries to rescue things but it all looks like his fault and he's out of a job. Little does he know that the explosion has changed his life forever, and it's possible that the assumption that he was a third grade wizard may be a little mistaken.
His friend Monk finds out about a posting in a far-off kingdom, Court Wizard for King Lional. However there are things that don't quite add up and his life is in serious danger.
It's a wry book with a self-mocking tone, I liked the characters and found it a good enough read that when I came across book 2 in a bookshop shortly after reading it I snapped it up.
Gerald is an interesting character, suddenly faced with the fact that he has more power he thinks about the ethics of using it. He is a man caught by his power and the knowledge that if he doesn't use it he will condemn others. It's written with a mostly light touch (you can't do a torture scene lightly) and with a slightly self-effacing apologetic main character that I completely empathised with.