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The Solumancer Cycle #1
Gambit
My name is Cade Cadigan, and in a city where supernatural creatures hide in plain sight, I'm the only human I know with the power to keep them in line. I've always been able to keep my wizarding ways a secret - until now. Someone's after me, and I'm about to blast my way through a dangerous world of monsters and magic to find them...
233 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 20, 2017
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About the author
J.C. Staudt
23 books15 followersJ.C. Staudt was born in Oceanside, New York, and moved to Virginia at the age of four, where he has lived ever since. He is a graduate of George Mason University, with a B.A. in Integrative Multimedia Studies, and he works for an Engineering and Consulting firm as a New Media Designer. He lives with his beautiful wife in a house lacking pets and children in Manassas, Virginia.
Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across three distinct universes:
The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.
Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.
Orothwain - A realm of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.
Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com
Staudt has been an unrepentant nerd for three decades and counting. He spends his weekends playing D&D and theorizing about every possible plot twist and untimely death (and undeath) that might occur in the next Game of Thrones novel. He writes science-fiction and fantasy across three distinct universes:
The Aionach - A dying world whose sun is so hot and close it's turned the entire planet into a wasteland. For fans of the Fallout video games, the Mad Max movies, and Stephen King's Dark Tower novels.
Esperon - A planet shattered centuries ago after a cataclysmic event of unknown origin, which gave rise to super-human beings called techsouls and islands that float on an anti-gravitational element called driftmetal.
Orothwain - A realm of goblins, elves, and dragons, where everyone talks like they're fresh off the boat from middle-ages Europe. You know the place. Magic and nature exist in polar opposition to one another, so magic users battle nature users like a fantasy rendition of crips and bloods.
Find him on Twitter @JCStaudtWrites or on his website, jcstaudt.com
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September 5, 2017
Terrible
Not a bad story, writing, or idea but the main character is terrible, finally stopped reading at 93% because I just couldn't stand it anymore. If you like the genre you may enjoy it, but the main character is one of those clueless ones that does ridiculously stupid and inexplicable things.
Not a bad story, writing, or idea but the main character is terrible, finally stopped reading at 93% because I just couldn't stand it anymore. If you like the genre you may enjoy it, but the main character is one of those clueless ones that does ridiculously stupid and inexplicable things.
July 25, 2018
Starts to a little slow
The book starts out a little slow but once it gets going it's worth the read. The main character Cade needs some discipline and to put some thought into his action. Overall I enjoyed the story
The book starts out a little slow but once it gets going it's worth the read. The main character Cade needs some discipline and to put some thought into his action. Overall I enjoyed the story
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