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Legacy / The Warlock Legacy #12

by Ryan Attard

No Rest For the Wicked…

Erik is back to doing what he does kicking ass, taking names, saving lives from monsters…

And he’s busier than ever. The city is still reeling from magic going public, and power-hungry folk are trying to get into the action. Erik’s got his arms full of weapons dealers, kidnappers, cultists, and all sorts of predators.

So when the biggest players go looking for the Eye, a recently unearthed magical artefact said to be nigh omnipotent, Erik has no choice but to step into the mess.
From militias to street gangs, savage predators and savvy politicians, everyone wants in on the action. Because the Eye isn’t just magic — it belongs to something far beyond that…

Something that awakens and can reshape the world as it sees fit.
It’s a new world order where magic runs rampant, friends become new enemies, and old ones just won’t stay dead.

The Warlock Legacy series is an action-packed urban fantasy thriller book series, great for fans of Jim Butcher, Sarah J. Maas, Kevin Hearne, Steve McHugh, Michael Anderle, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Shannon Mayer, K.F. Breene, and Shayne Silvers.

396 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 1, 2024

About the author

Author of the Legacy Series, the Pandora Chronicles and the Esper Files under Egan Brass

Reviews

[L & J Ross · Rating 2 out of 5]

So I’ve read all 12 books in this series on KU and the first few in the series were really great, but in book 11 and 12 while the series is still interesting the editing was severely lacking. There were so many inconsistencies in the timeline, for previous events, ages of various characters, and so many spelling errors where the appropriate words were replaced by homonyms, sometimes with unintended hilarity. Hopefully in any subsequent books since book 12 ended on a cliffhanger the services of a proofreader will be employed.

[Tawnya · Rating 3 out of 5]

When I first went to read this, I was at a loss. Characters were not how I remembered them from the last book. So, I decided to reread the series. It wasn’t my memory that was the issue. There is a lot wrong with this book. Emrys is back in action without any follow-up telling us when he finally woke up. Amaymon has been aged since the last book. Zeke is literally mentioned just once. By far the most off-putting thing in the book was the new definition given to “nephalem”. I understand that mythology has a lot of loopholes, but words still have meaning. When the Grigori joined the series, I figured the name was an homage to the watchers of old. The spelling is slightly different nephalem vs. nephilim. They are pronounced the same. I was shocked when Erik didn’t know what one was. Doing a search showed that “nephalem” was used in the videogame Diablo. Even that doesn’t account for what these creatures are. It would have been better to make up a new word altogether. There was also some dropped thread-lines as well some incongruity. At one point Erik says that Fred was the only hire that he did while he was in charge. That in factually incorrect. In the last book when we met Fred it had talked about Gil hiring him. In fact, when Fred tells Erik about how he killed someone Fred states that Gil is aware. For the second time Camilla’s age has changed. In the book when we first meet her, she talked about watching the pyramids being built. Here it says she is, “a vampire queen at least five hundred years old”. Erik makes the comment about Amaymon, that he “ had lived with the guy for nearly a decade”. There has been over ten years since the start of the series. In the first book Amaymon had been with Erik for roughly eight years. So, they lived together for so much longer that a decade.

I normally do not rag on a book. But I have loved this series. I own them all. There was actually a point in the book where I almost gave it 2 stars! I hope the final book is back to the earlier standards.