{"id":12809,"date":"2025-08-20T21:52:01","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T21:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=12809"},"modified":"2026-07-18T09:30:27","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T09:30:27","slug":"guild-mage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/guild-mage\/","title":{"rendered":"GUILD MAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up David Niemitz<\/a>‘s Guild Mage series<\/a> after it was advertised in a recent Metaworld Chronicles<\/a> chapter and saw the author was thankfully not one of those who felt it necessary to shove their genre into their work’s title. Even better, after finishing the first novel<\/a> it became apparent they were one of the relative few to take advantage of having a full site’s worth of proof readers; the only technical error that stood out was near the very end when the protagonist’s cat was misgendered.<\/p>\n

I liked it enough to immediately pre-order the second<\/a> and then head over to the web novel version<\/a> because I didn’t feel like waiting.<\/p>\n

The series is your classic overpowered protagonist coming-of-age story with some minor romance elements taking place over a slightly longer timeframe than usual, due to the the whole half-elf heritage thing. The first book (the only one currently available in offline form) has her going from peasant to apprentice, the second introduces a wider conflict and brings her into nobility, the third is the seemingly requisite academy arc (thankfully truncated), the fourth the beginning of her rise to true power, and the fifth the acquisition of that power.<\/p>\n

Throughout it all I only ended up with two complaints: The romance with the nobleman was handled incredibly badly from multiple angles, and the couple of perspective chapters from the royal antagonists in later volumes are exceptionally uninteresting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up David Niemitz‘s Guild Mage series after it was advertised in a recent Metaworld Chronicles chapter and saw the author was thankfully not one of those who felt it necessary to shove their genre into their work’s title. Even better, after finishing the first novel it became apparent they were one of the relative few to take advantage of having a full site’s worth of proof readers; the only technical error that stood out was near the very end when the protagonist’s cat was misgendered. I liked it enough to immediately pre-order the second and then head over to the web novel version because I didn’t feel like waiting. The series is your classic overpowered protagonist coming-of-age story with some minor romance elements taking place over a slightly longer timeframe than usual, due to the the whole half-elf heritage thing. The first book (the only one currently available in offline form) has her going from peasant to apprentice, the second introduces a wider conflict and brings her into nobility, the third is the seemingly requisite academy arc (thankfully truncated), the fourth the beginning of her rise to true power, and the fifth the acquisition of that power. Throughout […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1176,28,1177,29,511],"class_list":["post-12809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-related","tag-david-niemitz","tag-fantasy","tag-guild-mage","tag-paranormal-romance","tag-web-novel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t