Shadow Mage

by Sarah McCarthy

An immortal man, counting the days before a demon takes over his body and brings ruin to the world.A young assassin, riddled with social anxiety, sent to kill him, discovering that it's extremely difficult to kill a man who cannot die. An unlikely friendship, with the fate of the world at stake. Magical beasts roaming the land. Cracks in the very foundation of magic itself. A talking-- well, rambling-- pillar of fire infused with the soul of a certain long-winded old wizard. Can Finn save the world again, this time from himself? Can Sarai figure out how to kill him, or at least how to successfully navigate a basic social interaction without crumbling into a ball of neuroses or stabbing someone? Who the heck thought letting Isabelle teach a class of impressionable youngsters was a good idea? The answers to these questions, and more, lie in Shadow Mage, the long-awaited sequel to Sarah McCarthy's Shadows of Magic.

324 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 26, 2020

About the author

Sarah McCarthy lives in the woods on an island in a place with no cell service. Internet arrives by squirrel.

She grew up devouring everything by authors like Tamora Pierce and Stephen King, and spending hours filling notebooks with the beginnings of stories. Every week in summers she'd leave the library with a truly optimistically high stack of books.

There's nothing she likes more than getting lost in a well told story. Except maybe getting actually lost on a walk. Temporarily.

She hopes her stories give you fond memories, and that you find yourself uncomfortably rooting for her villains.

Reviews

[Laure · Rating 4 out of 5]

Sarai is an assassin with a job to do. Unfortunately, her target is a mage named Finn, and he just won't die. Even though Sarai may fail her latest job, she finds something she has never had with the students at the school for mages. I loved these characters. I thought they were all well written, compelling, and sometimes hysterically funny. Each and every one of them have been rejected by their families and friends so they have come to the school for mages to learn to control their powers, where they find a different kind of family. I thought this was a fascinating, and fun read, with plenty of unexpected, exciting, and comical twists in the plot, I really enjoyed this remarkable book, I didn't want to put it down.

I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book.

[Janice Votaw · Rating 4 out of 5]

Shadow Mage

Good book first one was better somehow or maybe my mind set is different . The end is a surprise, guess it means getting number three. The series is good so won't be a hardship to read. Thank you Sarah for showing a different kind of earth.