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When Wizards Follow Fools

Arcane Ascension, Book 5

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When Wizards Follow Fools

By: Andrew Rowe
Narrated by: Nick Podehl
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Corin Cadence has been summoned to meet with the Emerald Council, a political summit including the most powerful of all attuned and their closest political allies.

His summons came with a dire warning—that war was coming to the nation of Valia. While Valia is no stranger to warfare, the circumstances of this invasion are dire.

Valia's visage, Tenjin, remains missing. Many of the nation's leaders were slain during Mizuchi's attack, and others killed or injured through Saffron's machinations. With a critical power vacuum in Valia's leadership, few can be trusted.

Surrounded by old enemies, tenuous allies, and strangers with their own agendas, Corin will need to leverage every skill he's learned to help salvage his nation's fate.

Includes a sneak peek—in both PDF and audio—of Edge of the Woods, book one of The Lost Edge series set within the Arcane Ascension universe and available now in ebook, print, and audio!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

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worth the wait

its a wonderful book. it brings everything close to the end. i cant wait for the next one

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Sooooo good!!!

Well told story with awesome hell yeah moments. If you haven’t yet, read the first three books starting with Six Sacred Swords for key character intros.

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reoccurrence

I loved the slew of reoccurring battles from Corins past foes! "Showoff's" performance was absolute gold! The book felt a tad short but with the next one coming out in a matter of months hard to knock off any points for that! Overall it might be my favorite so far, the pacing was excellent and a ton of questions were either answered or elaborated on!

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Good narration and good story

I was so excited for this book. I could not wait to see what the next adventure would bring. While I really liked this book, I just felt… It was missing a little something. It seemed a little mysterious, and while it had a lot of action. It also seemed to lack a little bit of the flavor from the past four books. I definitely will continue on with the series, and I do not mind a cliffhanger, I just felt that it wasn’t as satisfying as the previous.

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Corin becoming more annoying

SPOILERS AHEAD. Minor spoilers but have to warn you.
Overall the story was great but Corin is getting ridiculous. Anyone on planet gets hurt and he's in agony because it's his fault for both not stopping it and for not giving e or healing them after. He had nothing to do with it..? Doesn't matter...he thinks it's his fault anyway.
oh yeah, he has a touch aversion in chapter 1 and tells us about it. Then again in chapter 2 and tells us about it. a You guessed it, chapter 3. And yet again and again. It's too much
Also, where was the editor..?? Went and risked 2 lives to try and get a boon to get hand back. When it comes time to ask for the boon his friend with missing hand needs to be talked into asking for her hand back because even tho there is no one else to help she feels guilty for asking..??? c'mon. That's just silly. She was injured so bad she couldn't walk but didn't earn the boon..?
much of story is awesome, especially Karis but stuff like this is just too much.

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Best one yet!

I love this series, but this is my favorite book yet in the series. I was afraid the series would start to drag but I listened to this in 2 days!

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thrilling story

some unexpected twists, great story overall, cant wait for the next installment in this series.

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A worthy addition

For starters, I love everything I've heard from Nick Podehl. Just seeing his name has become a reason to listen to a book. This is a worthy addition to the Arcane Ascension series. The ante is continually raised while never staying to far from the core of the story and truth of the character.

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Are The Characters Still Developing?

So the overall story is good. The series started off strong and the new story arc is fun. What I can't understand is the reasoning behind continuing to keep the group emotionally and socially fragile. Like they have not grown at all; still whiney, still can't handle low pressure situations, and yet still this group of teens for whatever reason have a voice in global governmental and religious affairs. Corin can't talk to his 6 non sexual romantic love interests of various entities, his teachers, or his friends, freezes in a fight still but then when some stuff needs to happen he's briefly batman. I'm getting whiplash.

All in all though decent story, but I do hope the characters find some strength at some point.

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This series keeps getting better and better

The development of the characters and entire world is fantastic. Narration is awesome as well. Keep it up!

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