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The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells
The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells







The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells

We have a third-person divided pov structure, Tremaine in a world with the flavor of, say, mid-1800s England and Ilias in a very different world that doesn’t map terribly well onto any real historical era I can think of but is much less technologically advanced. Okay the first thing to know is: If you’re starting THE WIZARD HUNTERS and you’re not sure you like it? Read at least three or four chapters before you decide. Little does she know that her decision to accompany Gerard to the Institute will send her into danger and across dimensions. One night one of the wizard researchers, a family friend, comes to ask Tremaine if she has any additional spheres. To help the dismal war effort, her family has donated both money and their collection of magical spheres to a research group trying to find a way to circumvent the enemy's immunity to magic. Now she volunteers for the dangerous work of driving ambulances and goes home alone to her missing father's rambling old house of Coldcourt. From a cultural capital and political powerhouse, it has transformed in the space of only a few years as a mysterious and apparently unstoppable enemy reduces the city to ruins and its inhabitants to refugees.īefore the war, Tremaine was a successful playwright with a circle of entertaining arty friends. Those who read The Death of the Necromancer (related to this book, but not requisite for understanding it) will remember Vien as an urbane, prosperous city at the height of its power.









The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells