Tamshi's Imp

by Jonathan Fesmire

The sorceress Tamshi just had an epiphany. Her memories are gone and she has been serving an arch-demon bent on destroying the real gods and the world. Further, her imp familiar has vanished in the confusion. How can she stop an entire cult, let alone an ancient demon lord?

188 pages, Paperback

First published June 27, 2005

About the author

Jonathan Fesmire is a happy author of speculative fiction. While he loves a variety of genres, including high fantasy, hard sf, and superheroes, the niche steampunk western genre has a strong grip on his imagination. Hence, the Creedverse was born.

A single father, Jonathan lives in California with his son. They enjoy going to movies, to Disneyland when possible, and play guitar together most evenings. Early in the covid pandemic, Mr. Fesmire took up the hobby of resin 3D printing. He enjoys printing, and painting, miniatures and dice towers when he has the time.

As an author, one of his goals is to write and publish at least one novel per year, and with "Bodacious Creed and the San Francisco Syndicate," he's come close.

Reviews

[Stjepan Cobets · Rating 4 out of 5]

My rating 3.8

The book "Tamshi's Imp" by Jonathan Fesmire is a likable story located in the fantasy world. A writer with the main protagonist of the book introduces in a world that is about to break up. Cultists who worship ancient demon lord want to open a portal that would bring him into a world where the book is located. Tamshi is the main character of the book and she is a priest. It was sent to reveal the cult and stop them in order to destroy the world. But after the rituals that the cultists have done, be awake without a memory. Her familiar imp disappeared without a trace and only who they can rely on, is her student Redrawa. But Redrawa is devoted to a fake god and Tamshi will try to clarify and show that it is not a god but a demon who wants to destroy the gods. The story is solid, although I was in moments, in some parts of the book I struggled to read a few pages. But in the end, the book was shining in full light. All in all the book is quite well written and I would recommend it to fans of fantasy genres.

[MiraJane · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received a complimentary copy of this book for free to give a voluntary honest review. This review contains only my own thoughts and opinions of this book. Thank you Jonathan Fesmire for this opportunity!

I do not think myself as a vain person and do not care about my or any other people’s looks. When it comes to book covers however I am very vain, which is a bad trait I have. After all you should never judge a book by its cover. However in this case the book cover of Tamshi’s imp kind of matches the inside perfectly. The cover is not really anything catching or inviting to me as a reader and as it turns out, the same goes for the story. Don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t anything terribly wrong or bad about the book, but it also wasn’t really anything intriguing or great about it either.

I really wish there was something concrete in the book I could point out and say “this is what’s wrong with the story”, because then it would be easily fixable, or at least somewhat easier to look past. No such luck (or unluck, however you wish to see it). There wasn’t anything wrong I could point out more than perhaps some spelling and grammar mistakes, but I don’t really care about that. It happens. The writing was completely fine and so was the plot. There just wasn’t anything in it that grabbed me into the story and nothing that got my heart in it. It all felt very mediocre to me and reading the story until the last page became a task/job more than actually enjoying and losing time and reality in the story, which is kind of the reason why I love reading.

I should probably try to explain why it felt mediocre as well. Although the writing was good, the story and plot in itself was nothing new and unique. There just was not anything special or anything that stood out to me, both story-wise and personality-wise. I felt no passion in the plot and characters. At times it also felt like the details in the book’s world was an inside secret only the author new, mainly because some events, magic or deities wasn’t really explained more or was just breezed over like we, the readers, already should know what it meant. We weren’t really introduced to the magic world the book built, but rather thrown into it and expected to understand it right of bat instead of learning on the way.

In the end, I don’t believe I will remember this story that well, or at all. It just wasn’t anything memorable about it and the brutal truth is that I don’t really care if I forget it. How could I? My heart was not in it to begin with.

[Danielle (Arabbitinwonderland) · Rating 4 out of 5]

What do I say about this book?

I enjoyed it but I don't believe I can adequately review it without spoilers but I owe it to the author to give it a go.

Now the first 10 pages felt as though I'd been thrown into the book part way in I wasn't quite sure what to make of it but after that it rounded out nicely, for the next 120 pages or so it was a good enough read it flowed nicely, it was a pleasant read but to be honest it wasn't 'oh my goodness amazing', The last 40 pages though WHAT THE ****?!?! I could not have been more shocked if the author had kicked down my door, ripped the book from my hands, and smacked me in the face with it!
What a twist and so fantastically executed! I can not tell you what the twist was without ruining the book but I have not been this shocked by a book in a long time, kudos to the author.

My only little complaint about this book was a new editor needs to be hired, the book is riddled with spelling mistakes, grammatical errors, and missing words.
While I did not have the opportunity to make note of all this is one example.
Page 22 "Her arms ached from the impact, but she ignored the flare on pane and scooted behind the bed."

Over all I do recommend this book, particularly so if you like DnD I saw a couple likenesses in this book that I had a smile over, just please don't take my review the wrong way, I know at times I seem to be criticizing the book but I'm not, this was a good book and worth the read if for nothing else to see how well this twist I've mentioned is done.

[Kathy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun read!

I really enjoyed this story about Tamshi and her Imp. It had a great story with a surprise twist. Would recommend it.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tamshi's Imp is the tale of a sorceress, Tamshi, who finds herself in the midst of a religious order. During some sort of ritual something goes wrong, Tamshi experiences a bizarre vision, blacks out, and awakens to discover that her memory only goes back two days. She has knowledge of her world, she remembers much about magic, but has a gut feeling that she knew more, remembers almost nothing personal. She also knows that the Priests and Priestesses give her a really bad vibe. Something about the ritual was off, thinking back, Tamshi remembers elements of dark magic. The ritual was not pure.

Tamshi decides it's time to run.

Much of the excitement in reading Tamshi's Imp is learning the story as Tamshi puzzles out her memories, so no more details. It's old-school straight up fantasy, and it's a fun read.

[Leah Ford · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an ARC for an honest review.

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, it was fast paced and kept you wanting more from the start.

The characters were likeable and the interaction was a smooth read.

There are wizards, sorcerers and demons, add a cute love interest and a couple of twists, and you have a wonderful tale.

I would definitely recommend this book.

[Teri Lynn Mosier · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!

Awesome. Many twists and turns. I really enjoyed this book. If you only read one kindle unlimited this year, I would have to suggest this one.