Similar to the author‘s De’Vas Chronicles series, their Feral Mage series has also been floating about my recommendations page since the first novel was available for preorder. In this case though I’d been avoiding it because the description made it seem like the harem aspects would be far too forced.
Unfortunately that indeed turned out to be the case, as I can’t really say any of the relationships in here are well paced and the series very quickly drowns you in love interests. Still, the first two books are readable enough if you can put up with that. The third has an additional problem however; the major plot developments take a fairly ludicrous turn and aren’t very interesting besides.
I picked up Olivia McCullough‘s The Hidden Magic of Ordinary Things on a whim some time back, just got around to giving it a look now… and almost immediately regretted it. I’m not at all fond of characters that kill themselves for no reason whatsoever, taking on work solely for the sake of taking on work while ignoring their own health in the process, and have no idea what’s up with her ‘friend’. She goes from “Are you alright, you look sick.” to “You should enchant this meadow full of lanterns!” and “You should go dancing!” in the blink of a eye. Baffling.