An Instruction in Shadow
An Inheritance of Magic, Book 2
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Narrated by:
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Will Watt
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By:
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Benedict Jacka
Summary
MAGIC. POWER. GREED. The ultra-rich control magic-the same way they control everything else-but Stephen Oakwood may just beat them at their own game in this exhilarating contemporary fantasy from the author of the million-copy-selling Alex Verus novels.
Stephen has emerged victorious against the schemes of his aristocratic family. Now he finally has the opportunity to do what he's been wanting to do for a long time: track down his father.
But doing so won't be easy. Stephen's not so isolated any more, but the contacts he's making in the magical world-everyone from the corporation he works for to the mother he's just beginning to reconnect with-all have agendas of their own. And now a new group is emerging from the shadows, calling themselves the Winged. Their leader, the mysterious Byron, promises that he can show Stephen how to find his father...but he wants something in return.
Following that trail will throw Stephen into greater danger than he's ever faced before. To survive, he'll need to use all of his tricks and sigls, and pick up some new ones. Only then will he be able to prevail against his enemies...and find out who's really pulling the strings.
'Jacka has drawn a potent new world of magic controlled by a privileged few, and Stephen Oakwood is the sigl-wielding rebel we didn't know we needed' New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill
'Captivating, compelling' SFX
THE INHERITANCE OF MAGIC SERIES:
Book 1: An Inheritance of Magic
Book 2: An Instruction in Shadow
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2024 Benedict Jacka (P)2024 Hachette Audio UKContinue the series
Actually not much
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I think some of the story telling is quite basic and a little bit cringey but it's ok.
I don't really like the narrator, some of the accents used are pretty bad.
Will look out for the next book.
An interesting story but sometimes quite basic
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I really love this book series. I can’t wait till the next one.
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This picks up directly after An Inheritance of Magic ends, and by this time I've become accustomed to the word 'sigl' (pronounced to rhyme with giggle. See my review of book #1 in this series, An Inheritance of Magic.) Stephen Oakwood is growing into his magic, though still learning. He's still wary of his family, the Ashfords but when he loses his well-seeking job, thanks to a loud-mouthed friend - he ends up taking a job with the heir of the Ashford family who seems to be cut from a different cloth from the other Ashford siblings, but he's being courted by a dangerous representative of a magical cult, who is teasing him with possible news of his missing father. He manages to negotiate his way around a potential rival and his murderous brother, but at the end of the book he's still not found his father, so there's obviously another book to come. Sadly this means that there's a semi-cliffhanger with parts of the story resolved, but the greater part not. I think I've mentioned before how much I hate unresolved endings. Not sure when the next book in the series is out. The narrator is good, differentiating well between the voices.
Good
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