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Memory and Magic
Tamsin learned caution the hard way, spending a year in the king's jail under suspicion of using illegal blood magic. Now she's scrounging a living as a laundress in the Narrows, the poorest ring of the three walled capital city.
When Tamsin's smuggler friend brings a badly beaten outsider to her door, compassion drives her to risk everything and heal him. But Rhys is no ordinary kingsringer dandy. An unknown blood mage stripped away Rhys's memories, he's being hunted, and he may be a traitor to the crown.
Now Tamsin must navigate the working-class streets she knows and the aristocracy she left behind to clear his name and discover the treasonous plot that someone wanted Rhys to forget. If she fails, a king will die and the Narrows will burn.
When Tamsin's smuggler friend brings a badly beaten outsider to her door, compassion drives her to risk everything and heal him. But Rhys is no ordinary kingsringer dandy. An unknown blood mage stripped away Rhys's memories, he's being hunted, and he may be a traitor to the crown.
Now Tamsin must navigate the working-class streets she knows and the aristocracy she left behind to clear his name and discover the treasonous plot that someone wanted Rhys to forget. If she fails, a king will die and the Narrows will burn.
262 pages, Paperback
Published October 7, 2025
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October 12, 2025
Thank you to DM Beucler, Luna press and Insta book tours for my copy of this book, here's my honest review.
Finally a heroine who is sensible and doesn't have me wanting to throw the book at the wall! I loved Tamsin, she was surviving the hand she'd been dealt which had turned her life from the daughter of a well to do carpenter, attending local assembly dances into a laundress living above a bakers shop struggling to make ends meet. Her daily life is about scrapping together pennies to make the rent and eeking out what she can to try and get herself out of this crushing poverty. All the while she hides a secret, one that could see her killed. She can use the outlawed blood magic.
I respected Tamsin for her cool headed but well thought out decisions, she's naturally wary but the brutality she's suffered losing her mother and spending a year in Kingsgate gaol doesn't stop her inner goodness. I liked her practicality and resourcefulness throughout the book.
When a stranger is deposited on her doorstep, bleeding and barely conscious she doesn't hesitate to help him. Rhys, our MMC, has had his memories stripped away, he's a wanted man but clearly from a high class background. The mystery surrounding him draws Tamsin into helping him recover his memories and get him home. The more they try to uncover his past with the help of the few items he had on him, the more the mystery deepens as to what he stumbled across and who is trying to stop him from remembering. How deep the treason runs and can they stop it in time to save the king and the people of the Narrows.
I enjoyed the pace of the book, it kept me hooked and there was plenty of adventures as they unravel the mysteries they come across. The ending was satisfying and I'm left with a cosy feeling so all in all I'm glad I've read it.
Finally a heroine who is sensible and doesn't have me wanting to throw the book at the wall! I loved Tamsin, she was surviving the hand she'd been dealt which had turned her life from the daughter of a well to do carpenter, attending local assembly dances into a laundress living above a bakers shop struggling to make ends meet. Her daily life is about scrapping together pennies to make the rent and eeking out what she can to try and get herself out of this crushing poverty. All the while she hides a secret, one that could see her killed. She can use the outlawed blood magic.
I respected Tamsin for her cool headed but well thought out decisions, she's naturally wary but the brutality she's suffered losing her mother and spending a year in Kingsgate gaol doesn't stop her inner goodness. I liked her practicality and resourcefulness throughout the book.
When a stranger is deposited on her doorstep, bleeding and barely conscious she doesn't hesitate to help him. Rhys, our MMC, has had his memories stripped away, he's a wanted man but clearly from a high class background. The mystery surrounding him draws Tamsin into helping him recover his memories and get him home. The more they try to uncover his past with the help of the few items he had on him, the more the mystery deepens as to what he stumbled across and who is trying to stop him from remembering. How deep the treason runs and can they stop it in time to save the king and the people of the Narrows.
I enjoyed the pace of the book, it kept me hooked and there was plenty of adventures as they unravel the mysteries they come across. The ending was satisfying and I'm left with a cosy feeling so all in all I'm glad I've read it.
October 22, 2025
3.5
I will always try and read a bit of every genre throughout the year, but a genre I will always run back to is fantasy.
Memory and Magic is a fantasy book that is intriguing, atmospheric, and completely captured my attention from the first page.
(I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!)
This feels like a proper old school fantasy book. There's magic, mystery, intrigue, good and bad people and some characters who are a bit of both, or you can't decide!
I really love our two main characters, Tamsin and Rhys, I love the world building and all the details are bringing everything to life in my imagination brilliantly.
The whimsical magic meeting the darker themes work really well together, and it was just a fab adventurous read.
I will always try and read a bit of every genre throughout the year, but a genre I will always run back to is fantasy.
Memory and Magic is a fantasy book that is intriguing, atmospheric, and completely captured my attention from the first page.
(I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review!)
This feels like a proper old school fantasy book. There's magic, mystery, intrigue, good and bad people and some characters who are a bit of both, or you can't decide!
I really love our two main characters, Tamsin and Rhys, I love the world building and all the details are bringing everything to life in my imagination brilliantly.
The whimsical magic meeting the darker themes work really well together, and it was just a fab adventurous read.
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