A review by subparcupcake
The Awakened Mage by Karen Miller

4.0

This progressed a little slowly for me.. Maybe that had a little to do with the fact that I read half of it, then went on vacation and didn't pick it back up for over a week, and am just now finishing it... But I don't think that was all of it. Book one ended in a huge cliffhanger, and I expected book two to be a nonstop fast paced progression to the conclusion. Instead, not much happened until the last few chapters, the rest was just set up for the final battle. People going here and there, talking and puttering away time. I still really enjoyed it, I just expected more from it.

I did like the ending though, and as a whole, I really enjoyed the duology. I'll be trying out the prequel at some point for sure, and then maybe someday the series that follows this one.

I definitely recommend this duology to any classic epic fantasy fans. It's good old fashioned magic stuffed fantasy done well, which I haven't run into in a long time. 3.5 stars for this one, and over all I'd give the set of two 4.25 stars.