Titan Mage Box Set: The Complete Crystal Moon Arc

by Edie Skye

Titan Mage Books 1-5 plus The Hot Springs Episode novella in one complete collection!

Hot girls? Giant robots? HECK YEAH.

Joseph Locke is dead.

But considering that he just woke up with a brand new body, in the cockpit of a badass steampunk robot, on an airship of nothing but hot babes, his next life may not be all that bad. Especially when he learns that he’s a void mage—the rarest and most powerful of all mages on the world of Haven. And his shipmates want to help him make more.

As if that weren’t enough, they offer Locke a job piloting one of their mechs, which they call Titans. In the meantime, Locke has to learn his way around this exciting world, all while coming to grips with his new—and dangerous—occupation. Will he be able to master his Titan? How can he best upgrade the machine to become as badass as possible? Why’s a strange parasitic sludge falling from the sky? What’s up with the ghost of a space witch living in his Titan—and inside his head?

And what’s going on with that strange shadow moving inside the Crystal Moon?

Titan The Complete Crystal Moon Arc is a fun harem fantasy adventure containing steam both punk and spicy. (So don’t read it and then complain about the spice. Y’all know exactly what you’re getting into.)

Box Set
Titan Mage
Titan Mage Ruin
Titan Mage Dragon
Titan Mage Rising
Titan Mage Apocalypse
Titan Mage Side The Hot Springs Episode

1732 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 4, 2024

Reviews

[Cody Hatch · Rating 2 out of 5]

I almost loved this series. I certainly wanted to.

Rather than write a review from scratch, let me just include the spoiler-filled rant I sent to a friend of mine about the series:

Book 1 was really good. Protagonist gets isekaied into a new world, sure, but....it's a world where "magic" means magitech (magic users can't just cast spells; they can only channel mana into large, complicated "catalysts" to achieve effects). And one of the cooler forms of magitech are giant multi-story tall robots, and since (wouldn't you know it?) the protagonist turns out to be one of the very small percentage of the population with the right magical potential to piloto, he ends up getting hired by a crew of mercenaries as a titan pilot, and flies around on their magitech airship fighting monsters and taking bounties and flirting with (and occasionally sleeping with) the female members of the airship crew.

Silly, but a fun sort of adventure novel. Slightly unique world building (unless it was stolen from an anime, I guess, but novel to me), some character progression, and just...enjoyable, if a bit cheesy.

But as the series progressed, the character progression stalled, and some really weird humour got introduced. Which requires some explanation: So, one of the things that makes this new world of Haven different than Earth is that the magitech allows for much more gender equality (nobody cares how strong you are if you're piloting a two story tall robot that can shoot magical lasers) and really reliable birth control and STD control, so in a slightly plausible development, the world is really casual about sex. And in a slightly less plausible development, if your entire world is really casual about sex, it follows that the most popular type of romance novel wouldn't be steamy ones with lots of sex scenes (like on Earth), but really tame, chaste ones with lots of subtext and pining. So "polite romances" are the most popular book genre on Haven.

...and THAT led to a really extended sequence with a bunch of characters weirdly obsessed with "polite romances", including a dragon, and for some entirely unexplained reason the most popular polite romances on Haven seem to be parodies of Earth regency romances, down to the fact that the male lead of one of the most popular books is Mr Dercy or something like that, an obvious riff off Pride and Prejudice's Mr Darcy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Darcy

And it just...what? The first book was airships and giant robots, and somehow the second book was about someone defeating a possessed dragon in a competition to see who could roleplay different characters from romance novels the best....?

Then when that story line wrapped up, one of the main characters with a backstory of having been kidnapped and experimented on by cultists and being quite traumatised by the experience gets...kidnapped by the same group of cultists again, and it gets super dark. There's more books but I've given up.

I really wish the author had chosen to write sequels to the first book; I liked it.

Oh wait, and also the rise of magitech led to the decline in power of the old noble families, but for some reason one of the things noble families are known for is having a chef on staff called a brisketeer who *just* cooks brisket, but it's really expensive to have a brisketeer, so an antagonist with a lot of money tries to win the heart of another character with a noble background by hiring the brisketeer her family had to let go when their circumstances declined? And this was like, an important plot arc?

And brisketeers are known for cooking the signature disk savoring, which is a portmanteau of savor and ring, ie, it's brisket piled on a savoury donut.

WHY IS THIS AN IMPORTANT STORY ARC?

There was way too much world building devoted to justifying brisketeers and savoring. Like...

The protagonist is trying to defeat and/or save a posessed dragon, and the dragon is on the lands of the Morton family, and the airship mechanic/love interest is actually the runaway daughter of the Morton family, and when they return to her old family castle to try and solve the dragon problem, they discover her family has betrothed her to Lord Neville something or other, and he has hired her families brisketeer to woo her heart, and anyhow, it ends up with the protagonist and Neville competing to see who can distract the posessed dragon by better roleplaying stock characters from romance novels so they can ambush the dragon while she's distracted by the protagonist telling her a story about how the character Neville is portraying is a scoundrel who killed some bees belonging to the character the protagonist is portraying.

Bees!



So yeah, the upshot is I like book 1, but the series is a bit of a dumpster fire from my point of view, and I just can't recommend it.

[The One True Rob · Rating 5 out of 5]

I just finished the Ultimate Supreme Hyper-Mega edition of Titan Mage and this is my totally original  and not plagiarized at all, review.


When in the course of human events it becomes necessary to dissolve the physical bonds that connects one with their home universe and to assume the powers of Titan Magery sufficient to defend a totally different universe and live on a ship with five hot women who all really appreciate his new body.


We hold the truth, that this is some kind of "Harem story" to be self evident, and that the male protagonist was not created equally, that they were endowed with impressive "attributes" by the imagination of someone with hair that is most likely purple.


I wasn't completely sure what to expect, as I had never read a Harem Fantasy before, but being "not dumb"  and also knowing the meaning of lots of words, had a pretty good idea of what I was going to read.  (Side note: I'm not exactly a prude, but I am definitely a happily married monogamist who is uncomfortable with the whole "Harem" thing.)  That said, I did skip through the "Haremy" parts of the story, although I'm certain they were as well written as the rest of the book(s) were.


All the "Haremy" stuff aside, this was an incredibly well written and enjoyable series to read.  The story moved along at a good pace and I cared about what happened to the characters.  Some reviews said this was predictable, but to them I say "all well-written stories are predictable because the author can't very well just kill off all of their main characters randomly, you numpty."  The trope of this book requires that the main character becomes very powerful and ultimately wins, because how pissed off would everyone be if the bad guy ultimately won?"  The only thing that matters is if you enjoyed the story along way, and I did.  Is it Anna Karenina?  No.  Of course, it never tried to be.  In fact, I would say it is the least "Anna Kareninay" book I have ever read and it takes not being Anna Karenina to new and wonderful heights.  Furthermore, it is also not Great Expectations, but if you have great expectations when you start you will not be disappointed. (Provided you're not a numpty with unrealistic great expectations.)


What is not to love about giant robots stomping around killing stuff?  Nothing.  Nothing at all.


If I were pressed to find a fault, it would be that there are no tacos, but they do have great brisket so I figure that eventually someone there will figure it out and become the most powerful person on the planet.


I recommend you give this series a try and if, like me, you're not into the whole "Harem" thing, use your fingers and just turn the pages until those sections are done.  I submit that is what fingers were made for.

[Jeffrey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this set of books. Decades ago I played a game called Mechwarrior and really enjoyed it. Plus there are movies like Pacific Rim and others in which you have people fighting in large robots or mechs. In too many harem books it seems the more women the merrier, I don't agree with that. This author seems to keep the harem to a reasonable size and each woman is unique, has her own personality, and her own strengths. This book is a good deal
The basic story is a young man on earth is recruited by a witch from another universe. The man comes out of a empty titan that's in an airship that has an all women crew. The mechanic, the sharp shooter mech pilot, the captain, and the chef. He is a Void mage one of the rarest and most powerful of all of the mages. There are matter mages, energy, gravity, and time mages. Void mages can do all of the different types, wheres most mages can only do one, and maybe a little bit of a second. There is five books and a bonus side story. All are done really well and the story is good and enjoyable.

[Charles Jackson · Rating 5 out of 5]

The best book series I’ve ever read

I love the concept. I love the lore. The characters were excellent. Bexley was my favorite for obvious reasons. I hope this continues. This is the kind of story that should never end and on that note all I have to say is MELONS!

[Zack Turner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fanfreakingtastic!

What an amazing book series! I absolutely loved this story and fantastic characters! I am sorry to see this series end, but what fantastic story!

[Dantegideon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first couple of books are only so-so, but they get very silly and more fun as the series progresses. And at least all his partners have agency! (I am looking at you, monster girl series.) Definitely worth your time if you like these kinds of books. As ever the splurting style of the sex scenes is not my bag, but I guess that is what most people like? Easily skippable anyway.