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Magic Eater #5
Creation
Tad's dream of owning a shop ended far too quickly, but his drive has only increased.
He is determined not only to become strong enough to withstand the Order but also to live the life he wants.
His family is drawing closer but he's got a couple more things to do before he's ready for the meeting.
Now he has to build up his team with some outside help, but for the first time he has a truly clear vision.
He is determined not only to become strong enough to withstand the Order but also to live the life he wants.
His family is drawing closer but he's got a couple more things to do before he's ready for the meeting.
Now he has to build up his team with some outside help, but for the first time he has a truly clear vision.
644 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 6, 2026
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April 15, 2026
There seems to be a book missing?
Unfortunately I can’t read the rest of this otherwise pretty good series without reading TEN MORE of the authors other books?
Unfortunately I can’t read the rest of this otherwise pretty good series without reading TEN MORE of the authors other books?
April 9, 2026
wtf?
So, apparently there was a book in between four and five, not part of the series, but I need to have read in order to understand this? And, if not understand it, I’m still missing a good majority of part of the story going forward? Also, I have to read at least 10 books in another series in order to understand the characters that came in and and who they’re talking about? Did everybody else know about this but me? I don’t really know if I should start book 5. Im honestly not sure what to do, but I’m probably going to put the series down and go to something else. Definitely disappointed.
So, apparently there was a book in between four and five, not part of the series, but I need to have read in order to understand this? And, if not understand it, I’m still missing a good majority of part of the story going forward? Also, I have to read at least 10 books in another series in order to understand the characters that came in and and who they’re talking about? Did everybody else know about this but me? I don’t really know if I should start book 5. Im honestly not sure what to do, but I’m probably going to put the series down and go to something else. Definitely disappointed.
April 10, 2026
Wrong book?
Did the publisher accidentally skip a book in the series? This book does not pick up after book 4 in the Magic Eater Series. I have no clue what is going on in the first chapter.
Did the publisher accidentally skip a book in the series? This book does not pick up after book 4 in the Magic Eater Series. I have no clue what is going on in the first chapter.
June 18, 2026
A rushed attempt to wrap up a sloppy series.
I won’t go into every single detail of my issues with this series as a whole, I’ve covered that in prior reviews. I will only focus on my feelings in this penultimate book or touch on the overall series in this book.
Firstly the good things. I really enjoyed the brief dungeon delving excursion even if how it was facilitated in the plot was lazy and contrived. I also enjoyed some of the expanding lore which applies to the author’s other series, of which I’ve only read Welcome to the Multiverse. I also like the new princess character even if the way the MC approached her was patronizing and self-righteous (I only note this as a criticism because I don’t believe that perception was intentional by the author).
But in the end this series just has too many flaws. For one, a magic system that is essentially just give MC directly, or through his allies, literally anything he needs including absurdly godlike skills. The skills, upgrades, enchantments, and levels in this series fall like rain, there’s no sacrifice for them. There’s no investment in progression, it’s just here’s x, y, z.
For another, Tad is such a shallow MC. He has ZERO flaws. He’s the most idealized good guy you can imagine. His character growth of being an orphan is completely contradicted by the fact his parents had an excuse and they are immortal and so what’s 20 years alone to that. This shallowness extends to all the side characters as well. No depth, no conflict, just perfect little allies that check various genre trope boxes. And the author kills off one side character of note in the entire series, and he’s only barely of note because he was sworn to the MC. But you could have probably counted his total spoken sentences on page on your fingers.
The plot itself is engaging in a meta-sense. But the narrative of how it plays out is lazy and unimaginative. Author just rushes from one point to the next. The pacing of this series also makes no sense, I think everything that has happened in this series has been less than a year. MC went from a classless porter to an ascendant in less than a year. For no reason. Just the author wrote it that way.
As for stakes and payoffs, there are stakes. But because the author’s narrative is so plot point to plot point and devoid of any character growth or depth the stakes don’t matter. We have to care about the characters to feel stakes and tension.
As a side note, early in this book I noted numerous contradictions, mostly minor, from prior books. I highlighted those if anyone is interested.
And my last little minor issue is that in all the ages and eons of the Fey System, never once has any Fey from the three races ever once had baby fey with someone from another race? And since that apparently is the case in this series’ lore, then how is it MC’s parents are so aware of the potential issues Tad is having and know EXACTLY how to fix them? Also, it’s established in this book that each Queen has numerous offspring, numerous for us not numerous to immortals, like 4-6 each I think. And it’s also established the “royal” fey can sense each other and there’s not many of them. So the Queens didn’t have siblings? Where are the uncles, the cousins? The cadet branches? This is sloppy writing, but it’s easily fixable so that’s why I call it minor.
In the end I am thoroughly unimpressed with this series. It’s below average in a genre full of average. This entire book feels like a rushed attempt by the author to end a series he doesn’t care about more than how it fits into his larger narrative. And for that, I will give it two stars. As many problems as I have with the fundamental aspects of how the author writes this series, there’s no one else trying to combine four series with four separate systems and MCs into one larger narrative. That’s worthy of a star.
As a final note, I will say I do think the author’s Multiverse series has many of the same issues in the first few novels but has improved, for the most part, as the series has developed, which is the opposite trend of most series. Frankly, the poor quality of this series is something I have a hard time making sense of. I know the author can write better. He can write better characters. He writes books with progression, stakes and self-contained story arcs without stat sheets so long you stop even listing in fully in the book (which this book does for the first time, a first for any book of the author’s I’ve ever read). I can only speculate here, but it feels like many aspects of this series are just not well thought out. There’s clearly a general outline of plot, but the rest is just giving vibes of the author being okay with “good enough”. That’s his prerogative as it’s his series, but this is what a review of a story with that effort looks like.
I won’t go into every single detail of my issues with this series as a whole, I’ve covered that in prior reviews. I will only focus on my feelings in this penultimate book or touch on the overall series in this book.
Firstly the good things. I really enjoyed the brief dungeon delving excursion even if how it was facilitated in the plot was lazy and contrived. I also enjoyed some of the expanding lore which applies to the author’s other series, of which I’ve only read Welcome to the Multiverse. I also like the new princess character even if the way the MC approached her was patronizing and self-righteous (I only note this as a criticism because I don’t believe that perception was intentional by the author).
But in the end this series just has too many flaws. For one, a magic system that is essentially just give MC directly, or through his allies, literally anything he needs including absurdly godlike skills. The skills, upgrades, enchantments, and levels in this series fall like rain, there’s no sacrifice for them. There’s no investment in progression, it’s just here’s x, y, z.
For another, Tad is such a shallow MC. He has ZERO flaws. He’s the most idealized good guy you can imagine. His character growth of being an orphan is completely contradicted by the fact his parents had an excuse and they are immortal and so what’s 20 years alone to that. This shallowness extends to all the side characters as well. No depth, no conflict, just perfect little allies that check various genre trope boxes. And the author kills off one side character of note in the entire series, and he’s only barely of note because he was sworn to the MC. But you could have probably counted his total spoken sentences on page on your fingers.
The plot itself is engaging in a meta-sense. But the narrative of how it plays out is lazy and unimaginative. Author just rushes from one point to the next. The pacing of this series also makes no sense, I think everything that has happened in this series has been less than a year. MC went from a classless porter to an ascendant in less than a year. For no reason. Just the author wrote it that way.
As for stakes and payoffs, there are stakes. But because the author’s narrative is so plot point to plot point and devoid of any character growth or depth the stakes don’t matter. We have to care about the characters to feel stakes and tension.
As a side note, early in this book I noted numerous contradictions, mostly minor, from prior books. I highlighted those if anyone is interested.
And my last little minor issue is that in all the ages and eons of the Fey System, never once has any Fey from the three races ever once had baby fey with someone from another race? And since that apparently is the case in this series’ lore, then how is it MC’s parents are so aware of the potential issues Tad is having and know EXACTLY how to fix them? Also, it’s established in this book that each Queen has numerous offspring, numerous for us not numerous to immortals, like 4-6 each I think. And it’s also established the “royal” fey can sense each other and there’s not many of them. So the Queens didn’t have siblings? Where are the uncles, the cousins? The cadet branches? This is sloppy writing, but it’s easily fixable so that’s why I call it minor.
In the end I am thoroughly unimpressed with this series. It’s below average in a genre full of average. This entire book feels like a rushed attempt by the author to end a series he doesn’t care about more than how it fits into his larger narrative. And for that, I will give it two stars. As many problems as I have with the fundamental aspects of how the author writes this series, there’s no one else trying to combine four series with four separate systems and MCs into one larger narrative. That’s worthy of a star.
As a final note, I will say I do think the author’s Multiverse series has many of the same issues in the first few novels but has improved, for the most part, as the series has developed, which is the opposite trend of most series. Frankly, the poor quality of this series is something I have a hard time making sense of. I know the author can write better. He can write better characters. He writes books with progression, stakes and self-contained story arcs without stat sheets so long you stop even listing in fully in the book (which this book does for the first time, a first for any book of the author’s I’ve ever read). I can only speculate here, but it feels like many aspects of this series are just not well thought out. There’s clearly a general outline of plot, but the rest is just giving vibes of the author being okay with “good enough”. That’s his prerogative as it’s his series, but this is what a review of a story with that effort looks like.
April 7, 2026
I Had to stop reading
It’s always a pity when an author decides to ruin a perfectly good book or series by making the MC into an idiot. The author decides to introduce a love interest and the MC suddenly starts doing really dumb things and everyone around him seems fine with it. He’s presented with the option to become more powerful but he says “no that’s not me”. Even though in six months a literal god is coming to kill him and everyone he loves. Hmmm… A fey Queen sends her daughter to seduce him. He says I know she’s been sent to seduce me and trick me into marriage. Let me give a powerful, irreplaceable ancient artifact and add her to my team alongside my closest most trusted allies. Makes me wonder if the author decided to start using AI.
It’s always a pity when an author decides to ruin a perfectly good book or series by making the MC into an idiot. The author decides to introduce a love interest and the MC suddenly starts doing really dumb things and everyone around him seems fine with it. He’s presented with the option to become more powerful but he says “no that’s not me”. Even though in six months a literal god is coming to kill him and everyone he loves. Hmmm… A fey Queen sends her daughter to seduce him. He says I know she’s been sent to seduce me and trick me into marriage. Let me give a powerful, irreplaceable ancient artifact and add her to my team alongside my closest most trusted allies. Makes me wonder if the author decided to start using AI.
April 10, 2026
You miss a large chunk of the book in the beginning
I was excited to dive into this new release after loving the precious books. But if you read even the sample, you’ll quickly realize this book heavily crosses over with another of the author’s works—and a significant chunk of the storyline progressed in the other book.
At first I was fine with it. I figured I’d just pick up that one extra book to catch up and everything would make sense. Then I discovered the crossover pulls from Book 10 in the series.
I’m not about to go back and read the previous 10 books in a new series to fill in the gaps.
The author tries to smooth things over by dropping in a few synopsis-style recaps, but it still feels like a large portion of the story—with plot impact—was simply skipped. That left me frustrated and pulled out of the experience.
I genuinely enjoyed the other book and the author’s writing style, which makes this even more disappointing. If you haven’t read the full series up to Book 10, be prepared for the sense that you’re walking into the middle of a conversation.
I was excited to dive into this new release after loving the precious books. But if you read even the sample, you’ll quickly realize this book heavily crosses over with another of the author’s works—and a significant chunk of the storyline progressed in the other book.
At first I was fine with it. I figured I’d just pick up that one extra book to catch up and everything would make sense. Then I discovered the crossover pulls from Book 10 in the series.
I’m not about to go back and read the previous 10 books in a new series to fill in the gaps.
The author tries to smooth things over by dropping in a few synopsis-style recaps, but it still feels like a large portion of the story—with plot impact—was simply skipped. That left me frustrated and pulled out of the experience.
I genuinely enjoyed the other book and the author’s writing style, which makes this even more disappointing. If you haven’t read the full series up to Book 10, be prepared for the sense that you’re walking into the middle of a conversation.
April 19, 2026
I don’t understand why this book doesn’t have 5 stars
I have always enjoyed the magic eater series and was introduced to it through Wttm. I like the focus on enchanting and crafting, I like the focus on the responsibility of authority and I like that we’re finally delving into the details of the courts that have been teased for several books. I’m glad the series has continued and tied in so both main characters could grow. Tad has had a rough time throughout so it was AMAZING to see him get some of the emotional payoffs that have been building for years.
I didn’t think it was a bad thing that Tony Stark had defining character moments in the Avengers and throw a fit when I watched the next Iron Man movie, and I think that in order for Tad to continue to see growth beyond the threats set up for him, crossing over with Apocalypse Breaker and Wttm is the perfect move.
Tldr- I loved the book, I love the crossover and both series are stronger for the entries. 5 stars.
I have always enjoyed the magic eater series and was introduced to it through Wttm. I like the focus on enchanting and crafting, I like the focus on the responsibility of authority and I like that we’re finally delving into the details of the courts that have been teased for several books. I’m glad the series has continued and tied in so both main characters could grow. Tad has had a rough time throughout so it was AMAZING to see him get some of the emotional payoffs that have been building for years.
I didn’t think it was a bad thing that Tony Stark had defining character moments in the Avengers and throw a fit when I watched the next Iron Man movie, and I think that in order for Tad to continue to see growth beyond the threats set up for him, crossing over with Apocalypse Breaker and Wttm is the perfect move.
Tldr- I loved the book, I love the crossover and both series are stronger for the entries. 5 stars.
April 13, 2026
A little delayed gratification
Of all the Sean Oswald's book multiverses. Tad & co are my consistent favourites. I honestly can't understand why someone would only give 3 stars. It couldn't be for the story. Action or writing, if i had to guess it would be the crossover event with welcome to the multiverse. I was a little put off at 1st as it was unexpected until the book synopsis, where It played up the demon betrayal & i thought I missed stuff at the end of book 4, then after quick reread worked out i needed to jump series & make the decision on Wether i read from book6=10 or just read bk10 of welcome to the multiverse. The latter being what I did ,AND WOW GLAD I DID as I had hit a flat spot with that series and it reinvigorated my love & desire for it and made me realise there were another 2 or so series to read & enjoy them & their crossovers
Of all the Sean Oswald's book multiverses. Tad & co are my consistent favourites. I honestly can't understand why someone would only give 3 stars. It couldn't be for the story. Action or writing, if i had to guess it would be the crossover event with welcome to the multiverse. I was a little put off at 1st as it was unexpected until the book synopsis, where It played up the demon betrayal & i thought I missed stuff at the end of book 4, then after quick reread worked out i needed to jump series & make the decision on Wether i read from book6=10 or just read bk10 of welcome to the multiverse. The latter being what I did ,AND WOW GLAD I DID as I had hit a flat spot with that series and it reinvigorated my love & desire for it and made me realise there were another 2 or so series to read & enjoy them & their crossovers
June 17, 2026
Well that was disappointing
What has been a good series so far took a turn. For the first time we have a time skip in between books, what happened during that skip is very important and there is a lot of growth, but don’t expect to actually figure out what happened. Dialogue hints are dropped for major points, but it more comes across as if you missed a book in the series.
The ending isn’t as bad as the beginning but it isn’t much better. Other than ascension nothing of consequence really happens in this book, and even that doesn’t really feel very major. Disappointed in this series, I will likely still read the next one only because I know it’s the last in the series.
What has been a good series so far took a turn. For the first time we have a time skip in between books, what happened during that skip is very important and there is a lot of growth, but don’t expect to actually figure out what happened. Dialogue hints are dropped for major points, but it more comes across as if you missed a book in the series.
The ending isn’t as bad as the beginning but it isn’t much better. Other than ascension nothing of consequence really happens in this book, and even that doesn’t really feel very major. Disappointed in this series, I will likely still read the next one only because I know it’s the last in the series.
April 9, 2026
Mixed
Pros: The text itself is good; solid core of character and story. The powers and philosophy are thoughtful, with the interactions considered. The characters feel like people.
Cons: Major plot threads were resolved in a different book series. Overly florid descriptions of locations and actions. Excessive introspection. The more we see the villain, the less I respect him.
Overall: I enjoyed my time and plan to read the next volume. Hopefully it isn't a crossover story.
Pros: The text itself is good; solid core of character and story. The powers and philosophy are thoughtful, with the interactions considered. The characters feel like people.
Cons: Major plot threads were resolved in a different book series. Overly florid descriptions of locations and actions. Excessive introspection. The more we see the villain, the less I respect him.
Overall: I enjoyed my time and plan to read the next volume. Hopefully it isn't a crossover story.
April 7, 2026
I really enjoyed this
This series has been great to read so far and I can’t wait for the next one. The only thing that bothered me was how the characters kept repeating information or realizations they’ve already voiced multiple times throughout the book. Apart from that the story was good.
This series has been great to read so far and I can’t wait for the next one. The only thing that bothered me was how the characters kept repeating information or realizations they’ve already voiced multiple times throughout the book. Apart from that the story was good.
April 8, 2026
Looking forward to more of Tad's adventures!
I appreciate the abbreviated stats that allow for more room for the story. Tad's is a great story of growth and wonder. Who would have thought an orphan's parent's families could cause so much yrouble?
I appreciate the abbreviated stats that allow for more room for the story. Tad's is a great story of growth and wonder. Who would have thought an orphan's parent's families could cause so much yrouble?
April 19, 2026
Good book!
I have been reading this authors titles almost exclusively over the past year even those under his pin name. I found this book to be excellent just like all the others I have read and look forward to what comes next in the series.
I have been reading this authors titles almost exclusively over the past year even those under his pin name. I found this book to be excellent just like all the others I have read and look forward to what comes next in the series.
April 20, 2026
love it
I am
Enjoying this series and loved the crossover between the worlds. Can’t wait to see how they all intertwine in the future. This series and this multiverse he’s made is awesome and I’ll keep reading more
I am
Enjoying this series and loved the crossover between the worlds. Can’t wait to see how they all intertwine in the future. This series and this multiverse he’s made is awesome and I’ll keep reading more
April 22, 2026
why??
Why put major plot points in another book that’s not part of the actual series?? To try to get more clicks? I was waiting for this book to come out, and now I’m missing key details because you put the plot that was building into a completely different series…… smh
Why put major plot points in another book that’s not part of the actual series?? To try to get more clicks? I was waiting for this book to come out, and now I’m missing key details because you put the plot that was building into a completely different series…… smh
May 16, 2026
Ruined it by forcing a 10 book interruption
Hope you weren’t enjoying this story because now it’s been completely derailed to tell some other unconnected side story you don’t care about.
Hope you weren’t enjoying this story because now it’s been completely derailed to tell some other unconnected side story you don’t care about.
June 8, 2026
looking forward to book 6!
Another great series/book by Sean Oswald! The recaps are very helpful! I’m retired and read constantly and the books can run into each other when you’re waiting for the next book in a series to be released. Thanks
Another great series/book by Sean Oswald! The recaps are very helpful! I’m retired and read constantly and the books can run into each other when you’re waiting for the next book in a series to be released. Thanks
April 9, 2026
Rushed
Have loved the other books in the series very much, but this book felt rushed and lazy compared to the rest.
Have loved the other books in the series very much, but this book felt rushed and lazy compared to the rest.
April 20, 2026
blending the multiverse
It’s fun to go between series. The characters and story flow make sense and I’m glad Sean is making book six.
It’s fun to go between series. The characters and story flow make sense and I’m glad Sean is making book six.
May 3, 2026
Fantastic.
As always an Great expansion of the setting and characters. I can't wait to see where the rest of the series goes.
As always an Great expansion of the setting and characters. I can't wait to see where the rest of the series goes.
May 6, 2026
Could not finish, too much of the story is missing and I am not going to read another series that I have no interest in to get it
June 15, 2026
5 star - Perfect
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
4 star - i would recommend
3 star - good
2 star - struggled to complete
1 star - could not finish
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