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Draven’s world has magic and an energy crisis that he is intent on solving. Between bolstering it through acts of kindness and positivity, he finds a portal between his world and the North East (Newcastle) and encounters Niall, an anxious and partially closeted boy.
This was a sweet if heavy handed romance between two teenagers (16/17) and my god, their ages shone through. Minor incidents were inflated to massive crisis and the overarching conflict of the book was similarly blunt. It’s a positive message about doing good to others but it’s hammered home throughout the book at the expense of character development. The romance between the two is sweet if immediate, but I would have liked to see more build up between the two as it verges into instalove which I’m not a fan of.
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This is probably not the authors intent with the story, but I’m so glad I’m no longer a teenager 🤣
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This was a very fun read, different in tone to the first although that may be due to our protagonists of choice. I was delighted to see that Alan featured in his own book as he was my favourite out of the side characters in the first set.
This book feels very put together, it’s focused on a few key events and progresses nicely towards a very sweet ending. I liked the relationship that developed between Hugh and Alan, they’re similar flavours of competent but daft seen particularly in their dealings with the older Molly potion seller. I enjoyed the pieces of magic that we got to see and would have liked to see more, especially the mention of Alan’s potion experiments from the first book carried over. Will be keeping my fingers crossed that he’s successful, given the mention of families in this story.
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Love these two for being the same flavour of competent but stupid. Cause if the Renowned Womaniser was having ED it would likely be known about already but Alan the unknown one out of the pair had a much better chance of success of that lie working
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If this weird (affectionate) mage doesn’t end this book knocked up I’m going to be so disappointed. Not generally my cuppa but he was so happy with his potion experiments in the first book that he deserves it
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