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The Nine Magics
Tower Mage Omnibus, Books 1-3
One great series in a single offering!
Gain Levels, Defeat Monsters, Protect the Innocent.
Rico hungered for something more, eager for excitement. Fate led him to a goddess of opportunity. The divine teleports him to a planet filled with war, magic, and denizens of the deep.
Life... it has a way of smacking you in the face, eliciting that fight of flight emotion buried deep within. For Rico, he embraces the challenge, being blessed as a mage of the nine magics; a protector of the nine species. By crushing his enemies to gain riches and levels, he'll protect the downtrodden as a destined champion.
As the Shrezen assaults increase, can the Champion of Nuwa stem their advance and save the day?
Gain Levels, Defeat Monsters, Protect the Innocent.
Rico hungered for something more, eager for excitement. Fate led him to a goddess of opportunity. The divine teleports him to a planet filled with war, magic, and denizens of the deep.
Life... it has a way of smacking you in the face, eliciting that fight of flight emotion buried deep within. For Rico, he embraces the challenge, being blessed as a mage of the nine magics; a protector of the nine species. By crushing his enemies to gain riches and levels, he'll protect the downtrodden as a destined champion.
As the Shrezen assaults increase, can the Champion of Nuwa stem their advance and save the day?
1157 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 19, 2024
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David Burke
38 books131 followersDavid Burke is a mild manner something who tries to enjoy each day a bit more than the last. It dawned upon him at some point that life was racing him by and he wasn’t nearly as young as he used to be.
So now he spends his nights and lunch hours and any other free time he can putting down on paper all the stories that have collected up over a life time.
So now he spends his nights and lunch hours and any other free time he can putting down on paper all the stories that have collected up over a life time.
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March 19, 2024
An Erotic, Harem, Isekai, LitRPG Series With Some Family Values.
Yeah, it's a weird mash up of genres and plots, but it works. There are definitely more books to come in this series as Rico, the Hero main character, only has six wives and there are nine races of people embraced by the pantheon of gods who he is now associated with. Plus there is the possibility that some of the enemy pantheon's races will become allies against a common foe and Rico will need to cement relations with those people with marriages as well. It's good to be king — but exhausting!
The text has some errors of the sort that come from over reliance on spellchecker programs/apps., but I hope the author will patch them in the near future.
Yeah, it's a weird mash up of genres and plots, but it works. There are definitely more books to come in this series as Rico, the Hero main character, only has six wives and there are nine races of people embraced by the pantheon of gods who he is now associated with. Plus there is the possibility that some of the enemy pantheon's races will become allies against a common foe and Rico will need to cement relations with those people with marriages as well. It's good to be king — but exhausting!
The text has some errors of the sort that come from over reliance on spellchecker programs/apps., but I hope the author will patch them in the near future.
September 16, 2025
Premise is good. Ruined by the extraneous additions
The story is good, with the races and world being an interesting dynamic. But there are quite a few things that really detracted from the story
(Spoilers)
The magic system is clunky, no one be able to go full caster without being super rich, and even then it would take too long.
Some word choices are bizarre such as the authors obsession with people "sputtering their lips".
Typos abound. I don't know if this was proofread.
The sex was awkwardly inserted (pun intended). At times, it even got in the way of the story.
The end became about him being a family man after doing a fade to black after the main character used two legendary spells, so we never get to see how that went.
Constantly lactating women would not want their breasts touched. Just. Not at all.
Making all of the races more or less identical with just some weird features was a odd choice, and didn't really work.
The baby obsession grew tiresome right away.
Main character completely forgot that the goddess told him to experiment with his spells more to find out which is his best type and it's never revisited.
While there is a time for casual and dirty talk, most people don't engage in it constantly. As a king and his queens, they should probably not be talking about their fornications and using what is generally considered crass terms for body parts in front of nobles and other rulers who are definitely not doing that.
The sex was fine, but weirdly described and not very creative with the exception of Odessa in the water one time at the very beginning. A woman's orgasm being described as "misting", the constant adjective of soaked or soaking. Originally the dirty talk was fine, but by the end was cringey.
It's possible it isn't true, but just from reading I'd say the author does not have children, as he states his one month old sleeps through the night. He tells his one week old she can't possibly be hungry, she just let him mom go to sleep two hours ago, but newborns eat every two hours. The first month, you're supposed to wake them to feed them. That same one week old behaves far older, smiling and giggling, her eyes already tracking his eyes. Before writing about having tons of kids, maybe some research should have been done.
Many sentences don't fit, or are weirdly phrased.
One race is described, repeatedly, as dragonic, which is a made up word. Perhaps the author didn't want to use dragonic, but dragonic is too close, making it feel incorrect instead of new.
Overall I'd have enjoyed the books far more if the author had put far more emphasis on the story, on the abilities, and on world building which is fairly slim. I liked the premise, and the battles and in between were enjoyable. But having a gratuitous sex scene every 10-30 pages got old pretty fast.
The story is good, with the races and world being an interesting dynamic. But there are quite a few things that really detracted from the story
(Spoilers)
The magic system is clunky, no one be able to go full caster without being super rich, and even then it would take too long.
Some word choices are bizarre such as the authors obsession with people "sputtering their lips".
Typos abound. I don't know if this was proofread.
The sex was awkwardly inserted (pun intended). At times, it even got in the way of the story.
The end became about him being a family man after doing a fade to black after the main character used two legendary spells, so we never get to see how that went.
Constantly lactating women would not want their breasts touched. Just. Not at all.
Making all of the races more or less identical with just some weird features was a odd choice, and didn't really work.
The baby obsession grew tiresome right away.
Main character completely forgot that the goddess told him to experiment with his spells more to find out which is his best type and it's never revisited.
While there is a time for casual and dirty talk, most people don't engage in it constantly. As a king and his queens, they should probably not be talking about their fornications and using what is generally considered crass terms for body parts in front of nobles and other rulers who are definitely not doing that.
The sex was fine, but weirdly described and not very creative with the exception of Odessa in the water one time at the very beginning. A woman's orgasm being described as "misting", the constant adjective of soaked or soaking. Originally the dirty talk was fine, but by the end was cringey.
It's possible it isn't true, but just from reading I'd say the author does not have children, as he states his one month old sleeps through the night. He tells his one week old she can't possibly be hungry, she just let him mom go to sleep two hours ago, but newborns eat every two hours. The first month, you're supposed to wake them to feed them. That same one week old behaves far older, smiling and giggling, her eyes already tracking his eyes. Before writing about having tons of kids, maybe some research should have been done.
Many sentences don't fit, or are weirdly phrased.
One race is described, repeatedly, as dragonic, which is a made up word. Perhaps the author didn't want to use dragonic, but dragonic is too close, making it feel incorrect instead of new.
Overall I'd have enjoyed the books far more if the author had put far more emphasis on the story, on the abilities, and on world building which is fairly slim. I liked the premise, and the battles and in between were enjoyable. But having a gratuitous sex scene every 10-30 pages got old pretty fast.
May 8, 2024
rocky launch and failed to stick the landing
There are dull tower defence games out there, written by people who kinda like the genre but are excited by coasting to victory by a few instant spells but otherwise just letting the towers do all the work against an unthinking for because they have memorized the attack pattern from multiple playthroughts?
This series is the Isekai version of that. Our hero just ‘is awesome’ but not actually written to be so, just everyone tells him he is strong, smart and charming. The self insert fantasy aspects are not great and not character defining.
It has all the required parts on the box, but they aren’t put together in an interesting or new way… and some of the parts feel like ‘it’s been 40 pages so we need _this_ kind of scene now even if it’s out of place.’
This genre has some strong entries, more in the ok~average range and this one is very much a weak one.
Do not recommend.
There are dull tower defence games out there, written by people who kinda like the genre but are excited by coasting to victory by a few instant spells but otherwise just letting the towers do all the work against an unthinking for because they have memorized the attack pattern from multiple playthroughts?
This series is the Isekai version of that. Our hero just ‘is awesome’ but not actually written to be so, just everyone tells him he is strong, smart and charming. The self insert fantasy aspects are not great and not character defining.
It has all the required parts on the box, but they aren’t put together in an interesting or new way… and some of the parts feel like ‘it’s been 40 pages so we need _this_ kind of scene now even if it’s out of place.’
This genre has some strong entries, more in the ok~average range and this one is very much a weak one.
Do not recommend.
March 11, 2024
What a great story!
I really enjoyed this series and I hope Mr. Burke continues it with another trilogy. The action and adventure will keep you on your toes with excitement. The hero champion will get you cheering as he learns new magic and whips some alien ass. If you love good fantasy then Gove this one a read. You won't regret it.
I really enjoyed this series and I hope Mr. Burke continues it with another trilogy. The action and adventure will keep you on your toes with excitement. The hero champion will get you cheering as he learns new magic and whips some alien ass. If you love good fantasy then Gove this one a read. You won't regret it.
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