I felt like Wells did a lot more telling than showing. (Admittedly, the same is pretty much true of Bracht and Katya, but I find things like this more forgivable in secondary characters than in main characters.) I didn't really believe Cennaire's change of heart, either. But why? They rarely spoke that I remember, so all they really had to go on was appearances. Wells just told us it was so, and it was.
I didn't believe that Calandryll and Cennaire were in love. I have no problem with this plan, except that his descriptions are so dense that I always have to be really, thoroughly awake to start a new chapter. Wells's chapters often start with a description of the setting.
Wells really has a problem with "neither… nor…" He insists on pairing "neither" with "or." Irritating… Wild Magic is the dazzling conclusion to The Godwars, an epic quest of daring heroism and startling magic by one of the rising stars in the fantasy firmament. And as they face the perils of civil war, magical assaults, and the ever-present threat of Cennaire’s treachery to reach Rhythamun before he wakes the god, they live with the knowledge that the fate of the world rests solely in their hands. He carries with him the Arcanum, an ancient book of power that - simply by virtue of having been discovered - already stirs the god from his slumber.īut Calandryll and his companions are chased by another vengeful mage, whose dark magics created Cennaire, an undead murderess, to thwart their efforts. Now, the exiled prince Calandryll, the mercenary Bracht, and the warrior woman Katya pursue Rhythamun, a powerful wizard who would wake one of the mad gods and provoke apocalypse. And so the First Gods condemned them to eternal sleep in order to preserve creation. But greed and power twisted their minds and turned their ambition into madness.
When the First Gods created all things, they brought forth two lesser gods, Tharn and Balatur, to walk upon the new world.
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