When Runnel, a friendless peasant from a village so humble that money is a new concept, leaves his mountain valley, he is completely unaware of his magical talents. Seeking his fortune, he stumbles into a centuries-old feud when he travels to Mitherhome, the city of the water mages. He accepts a servant's position in the household of the sole stone mage permitted within the city walls, and there his untapped magical talents and his fascination with his master's abilities are a predictably dangerous combination. Soon, without meaning to, he complicates and endangers the lives of everyone he has come to know and care about, for when it comes to magic, there are rules and laws, and the untrained mage-to-be must be careful not to tap into deep forces and ancient enmities. Otherwise, other people might end up paying the price for his mistakes.
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0I listened to the audiobook for this today, a quick 3 hour audiobook, so I knew right away this wasn’t going to be a long fully stuffed tale.
I do however think for the short length it is, it had just enough world building to be intriguing. I was pulled in and listened for the 3 hours uninterrupted.
I instantly gravitated to Runnel, he is the 9th son in a long line of kids, and was ostracized by his own family. I felt for the boy, and when he decided to just climb some rocks one day and keep going and never look back, I couldn’t blame the kid. If I read that while I was 12 I would have looked up to that.
I thought the storytelling between the water mages and stone mages was fascinating, was it super filled out, no, but I felt just enough was given to make it interesting (and yes I realize this is part of a much bigger world).
I will say that climax of the story towards the end did feel rushed but not enough to warrant any major dislike from me.
Overall I enjoyed it and I thought the last line between Runnel and Lark (I might have misspelled that, audiobook problems haha) was sweet and made me go “aww so cute”
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