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Brain-eating fungi, wannabe sorcerers, long-lost relations–does even a hard-core witch stand a chance?
Mad sorcerers, psychic vampires, an army of vengeful demons, Marla Mason would rather face them all than a flesh-and-blood ghost from her dysfunctional family past: her con artist brother, Jason. As Felport’s chief sorcerer, Marla would ordinarily consider it her duty to protect her town from such an unscrupulous ne’er-do-well. As his sister, things are a lot…trickier. Now, as Marla attempts to train an apprentice oracle whose magical wires have gotten crossed, Jason is setting up an elaborate sting and drawing her ever-so-corruptible partner Rondeau into the ruse.
Their patsy is a filthy-rich wannabe mage and their bait is something so valuable, so dangerous, so sought after, it probably doesn’t exist. But now word’s gotten out that the Borrichius spores do exist and instead of a sucker Jason and Rondeau have a much bigger–and much deadlier–fish on their line: a reclusive sorcerer whose devotion to the mushroom god and command of vegetal magic could bring a fungal apocalypse to Felport. It’ll be the mother of all bad trips unless Marla can pull off the ultimate magical switcheroo…and somehow live to tell about it.
Mad sorcerers, psychic vampires, an army of vengeful demons, Marla Mason would rather face them all than a flesh-and-blood ghost from her dysfunctional family past: her con artist brother, Jason. As Felport’s chief sorcerer, Marla would ordinarily consider it her duty to protect her town from such an unscrupulous ne’er-do-well. As his sister, things are a lot…trickier. Now, as Marla attempts to train an apprentice oracle whose magical wires have gotten crossed, Jason is setting up an elaborate sting and drawing her ever-so-corruptible partner Rondeau into the ruse.
Their patsy is a filthy-rich wannabe mage and their bait is something so valuable, so dangerous, so sought after, it probably doesn’t exist. But now word’s gotten out that the Borrichius spores do exist and instead of a sucker Jason and Rondeau have a much bigger–and much deadlier–fish on their line: a reclusive sorcerer whose devotion to the mushroom god and command of vegetal magic could bring a fungal apocalypse to Felport. It’ll be the mother of all bad trips unless Marla can pull off the ultimate magical switcheroo…and somehow live to tell about it.
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T.A. Pratt lives in Oakland, California with partner H.L. Shaw, and works as a senior editor for a trade publishing magazine.
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4.3 out of 5 stars (15 customer reviews)
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good story, but a lot of errors in Kindle version, Nov 12 2009
By Charles W. Reace Jr. "Noggin's best friend" - Published on Amazon.com
This installment of the Marla Mason series continues the solid story-telling and writing. However, Kindle readers beware: there are a lot of formatting problems in this, from missing periods to incorrect paragraph breaks to words with spaces between syllables. Hopefully a proofread and corrected version will be forthcoming (and hopefully downloaded to those of us who already purchased it?).
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful increment to a magical series, Aug 9 2009
By Fourier "carl_f_gauss" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Spell Games (Mass Market Paperback)
TA Pratt is a undiscovered gem of an author. This four book series is one of the best series I've read in quite some time. Casting about after having finished quite a few books over a period where I felt the need to escape into a different world after some bad stuff in the real one, I stumbled quite by accident into the world of Marla Mason.
I'm an exceptionally picky reader, and approached this series with extreme trepidation. Surely this would be just a Harry Dresden rip off. It is not - although I can imagine Harry and Marla hanging out for beers (and lemonade for Marla) and getting along something wonderful. TA Pratt wrote a completely fantastic story and world that stands on its own and engulfs the readers hook line and sinker.
The sad news, though: the publisher has not accepted a fifth installment of the Marla Mason series. This is a terrible travesty of the free market - if this series were just picked up and read, I'm certain it would catch like wildfire. Unfortunately either due to poor marketing or poor circumstance, it's languished and has been dropped.
The good news, though: TA Pratt has begun working on a serial donation based book, available at his website (search for marlaverse).
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Spell Games, April 27 2009
By Ithlilian "Ravenous Reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Spell Games (Mass Market Paperback)
This novel lacked the sense of danger that made the previous novels so exciting. The characters are great, and it was fun learning about B's apprenticeship, but the bad guy in this book was disappointing. Supposedly a fungus magician is on his way to threaten Fellport. Well he certainly does show up, however, he leaves about 10 minutes later. The other question mark is Marla's brother Jason. That plot line wasn't much more developed than the mushroom guy. Nothing much happens in this book, which is disappointing since I loved this series so much. Even with all of that said, I ate the book up. It's just so fun to read about Marla no matter what is happening, or in this case, isn't happening. Hopefully the next one picks up the excitement a bit. I'm sick of reading in the first few paragraphs about some interesting drama Marla has run into between books, I want to experience it! Time to bring back our snake god from book 1 please. Fans of the other books should definitely read this, even with it's shortcomings.
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