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Forest Mage
- Subgenre
- romantasy
- Edition year
- 2006-08-29
- Rating
- ★ 3.5 · 92 ratingsExternal reader rating · Hardcover
- Spice
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Cadet Nevare Burvelle survives the devastating Speck plague that has decimated the King's Cavalla military academy, and begins his journey home to Widevale expecting a joyful reunion with his fiancée Carsina and a commission as an officer. Though he believes he has purged the Speck magic from himself, he is plagued by visions of his Speck self betraying all he holds dear and tormented by a shameful side effect of the plague that alienates Carsina. Caught between the seductive Speck realm and his own ancestral world, Nevare discovers the magic he thought destroyed still lives inside him, and that his most dangerous enemy may dwell within his own blood.
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- High Fantasy: “caught between the sensual, enchanting realm of the Specks and his own ancestry, the world he has always known” source
- Tortured Hero: “his nights still haunted by visions of his Speck self betraying everything he holds dear in his waking life, and his days tormented by a rare side effect of the Speck plague that shames his family—and repulses Carsina” source
- Unreliable Narrator: “he defeated his Speck nemesis, freeing himself, he believes, from the Speck magic that infected him” source
- Epic Saga: “the magic in Nevare's blood—magic that he thought he had destroyed—roars to life” source
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