Notorious Sorcerer

Name: Notorious Sorcerer
Brand: Hachette Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Davinia Evans
ISBN: 9781668620007

Author: Davinia Evans

Narrator: Kirsten Foster

Unabridged: 14 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 09/13/2022

Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Dragons, Urban, Humorous Fiction

Synopsis

In a city filled with dangerous yet heavily regulated alchemical magic, a man from the slums discovers he may be its only hope to survive certain destruction in this wickedly entertaining fantasy. Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night and rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the four planes of reality.

Siyon Velo, Dockside brat turned petty alchemist, scrapes a living hopping between the planes to harvest ingredients for the city’s alchemists. But when Siyon accidentally commits an act of impossible magic, he’s catapulted into the limelight—which is a bad place to be when the planes start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send Bezim into the sea.

It will take a miracle to save the city. Good thing Siyon has pulled off the impossible before. Now he just has to master it.

A dazzling fantasy bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist.

"From the razor-sharp social climbing to the glimmering alchemist's library to the hidden realms beneath it all, I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut." —Shannon Chakraborty

Author Bio

Davinia Evans was born in the tropics and raised on British comedy. With a lifelong fantasy-reading habit and an honours thesis in political strategy, it was perhaps inevitable that she turn to a life of crafting stories full of sneaky ratbags tangling with magic. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with two humans (one large and one small), a neurotic cat, and a cellar full of craft beer. Dee talks more about all of that on Twitter as @cupiscent

Reviews

Goodreads review by Krystal on December 29, 2022

Wow. I loved this! The story follows Siyon, a bit of a street urchin with a curiosity for alchemy. Bezim is a city that practices this art that involves connection to the three other planes of existence: Aethyr, Empyre and Abyss. No magic here, kids, just pure unexplainable science. Siyon delves to......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on June 15, 2022

A brilliant alchemical recipe! Notorious Sorcerer is a delicious melange of my favourite things, remixing historical magic with class consciousness. I couldn’t put it down. I should start this review by saying that I am one hundred percent this book's intended audience, and if you are another would-b......more

Goodreads review by Rachel (TheShadesofOrange) on September 15, 2022

3.0 stars I went into this one looking for a fun witty urban fantasy, but I would not use those descriptors for this novel. I found this one a bit disappointing. The characters plot and a magic system that were average at best. It just lacked that "something" that makes a book special. I've heard oth......more

Goodreads review by Nils | nilsreviewsit on July 29, 2022

“Above all else, Bezim loved a spectacle. See it in the vigorous and vibrant trade of the Flowerhouses, in the regular processions out to the hippodrome, in the theatres scattered across the city both high and low, in the race and challenge and following of the bravi tribes. The square sizzled around t......more

Goodreads review by Natasha on September 12, 2022

Notorious Sorcerer is a high octane, epic fantasy filled with sword fights, roof top hijinks, alchemy and a reluctant hero just trying to protect his home (and people) that I couldn’t get enough of! It’s set in Bezim, where warring tribes fight for control of the streets—a place where magic is techn......more