#An Inheritance of Magic

[abookishidentity]

Books I recently checked out of the library

My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher- I thought the plot of demons escaping hell was an interesting one. I should have done more research as I did not know this was romantic fantasy. It had a lot more sex in it than I thought. I already finished it. It was not for me. Lesson learned.

Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett - I read the other two Emily Wilde books and so naturally I have to read this one. I am about half way. I appreciate it a lot more since I read the previous book first.

Toto by A.J Hackwith- I saw this book in the next section at the library I work at and thought it sounded fun. However, there is only so much a dog can do so I wonder if that will become tedious. I have read another book by A.J Hackwith so hopefully I like this one.

An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka- This books just seems interesting to me. I think it's urban fantasy? Its written by the same guy who writes the Fated book series which I'm pretty sure is urban fantasy. I want to read that series but this is at the library I work at so I'm reading it. The plot seems fun.

[taenique]

[nzbookwyrm]

[dramaswithasideofkimchi]

Kmuse's Book Reviews (July 5th, 2024)

[rheadionne]

Check out my review of An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka

[crustaceousfaggot]

Shout out to Cishet White Teenager Christopher Paolini for realizing that if you give people infinite time, a completely non-judgemental society, and the power to change their bodies any way they want, lots of people are gonna start doing Freaky Anthro Transgenderism on themselves.

Like yeah, if I had the option I'd probably turn myself into a bizzare eldritch creature too

[amberkendslacy]

Buffy: I have regained consciousness from death less than a week ago. The very act of my organs functioning must feel like torture.

Willow: you have debt and also the pipes in the house are fucked. Better start applying for loans and jobs and interacting with the world like nothing happened.

Buffy: ...

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

Jason gets booted to another dimension and adopts a recently orphaned Bruce Wayne.

Whom he also takes along for the ride when he’s pulled back into his own dimension.

EDIT:

Now a fic! The Antithesis of Magic

[edorazzi]

Page 16 of my Miraculous Mentor AU comic A Matter of Trust! In which Felix highlights significant differences in the Black Cat Miraculous 15 years before Adrien got it - all that unstable chaos magic would not stay inside! 💀💣

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[mirensiart]

Crying screaming and throwing up thinking about Sky telling the other links the ONE iconic line from fire emblem awakening 🫠💔

"You deserved better from me than one sword and a world of troubles. I'm sorry."

[shisasan]

[abookishidentity]

Books read and finished in April 2025

--The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde started April 1, 2025 and finished April 3, 2025- 4/5 stars. You know, for a book called The Eyre Affair the stuff with Jane Eyre doesn’t really happen until the last fourth of the book. That was my only gripe about the book. This book was whacky in a very British way. I was into it. It was delightfully weird. I love that there are time cops and time stuff in this book. The main character’s dad popping in once in a while was quite amusing. There are quite a lot of organizations that deal with different stuff. Like vampires and werewolves. That was an interesting surprise. The villain was interesting and nearly omnipotent. Thursday Next is such an interesting name for the main character. I want to follow more of her exploits. I wish the remaining books were at my local library but there is a library nearby that has the series so thats good at least. Interesting world that I wouldn’t want to live in. 

-Upright Women Wanted by Sarah Gailey started April 3, 2025 and finished April 4, 2025- 3.5/5 stars. This was a short book so there isn’t much I can say about it. Queer librarian spies are a pleasure to read about. I’m glad that the main character escaped her home life which seemed terribly homophobic and misogynistic. Shame that her “friend” was hanged by the main character’s dad. Wouldn’t want to live in this world. It’s wild to me how quickly the main character fell for one of the librarians she was with. 

-Early Riser by Jasper Fforde started April 4, 2025- 3/5 stars. What an interesting and yet dystopian world. Wouldn’t want to live in this world in which women are farmed. The dream aspect of this book was fascinating. The need for hibernation because of the cold ass winter was interesting. You know when books come with a glossary? That annoys me usually but for this book I would welcome it. Too many terms to keep track of. This world has corporations and of course they would construct something that would essentially make use of people who are essentially brain dead. I didn’t like that people referred to the main character as “Wonky” since he had a deformed head. This book didn’t hit as much as Jasper Fforde’s other book I read. 

-My Funny Demon Valentine by Aurora Ascher- 2/5 stars. Oh whoops I didn’t do enough research on this book. A lot more spice in a book than I was expecting. This felt like it was for certain audiences which is not me. If the couple in this book was queer then I would enjoy it more. At least they are practicing safe sex. Although, I don't know how safe or comfortable it is to have sex on a piano. Other than the sex, the plot is quite interesting. Its easy to see where its going though. Demons escaping hell is always fun to read. And at least they also like playing jazz together. At the end of the day this is a trash romantasy novel. Some lines felt like this was written over ten years ago. I stopped taking it seriously as soon as Ash said “Well…that just happened.” 

-Emily Wilde’s Compendium of Lost Tales by Heather Fawcett started April 9, 2025 and finished April 12, 2025- 4/5 stars. I love the Emily Wilde books. I deeply respect Emily’s dedication to research and her books. I don’t have much to say about this book as it was pretty good and entertaining. Wendel’s dedication to Emily is pretty sweet. There were moments in which I thought “Whats the rest of this book about?” I like the direction it goes. 

-Toto by A.J Hackwith started April 13, 2025 and finished April 15, 2025- 3.5/5 stars. Sometimes you have to read someone’s Wizard of Oz fanfiction. That’s what this felt like. Toto, being a tiny dog, can only do so much. He was given the power of speech which was helpful. It was kind of interesting that Dorothy lied about being to understand him. I guess she felt that her life was weird enough that her dog from Kansas being able to speak was just the icing on the weirdness cake. I like the additional characters. They were cool. I also like how the main group of characters were written. There was a lot of revolution and politics in this book which was deeply interesting. Although it felt like part of a book somewhat recently. I like that Elon Musk AKA The Wizard was blown up in his drone. I also like that it ends with Dorothy going on adventures with Evaline who was the wicked witch of the west. 

-An Inheritance of Magic by Benedict Jacka- 3.5/5 stars. If one likes magic systems and them being explained in many details then you would like this. I don’t really care how magic systems work. I mean it was a good book, it's just I didn’t really care all that much about the magic. The main character is quite interesting as he’s quite young (20 years old) and kind of inexperienced with the drucraft world. Which is a very depressing world as it's just like the real world in which you need money to do anything. An annoying thing about this book is that the main character has to deal with his rich bitches of relatives. Man if they just left him alone then he wouldn’t have so much grief in his life. It was interesting to read how he got better with his drucraft and his process in doing things. I don’t think I’m going to continue reading this series though. I don’t want to read about the rich bitches again. The main reason I picked this up is because I wanted to read a Benedict Jacka book. His Alex Versus series sounds more up my alley but who knows. 

-Court of Magickers by Novae Caelum started April 19, 2025 and finished April 22, 2025- 4/5 stars. This is the fourth book of the series. It’s a very interesting series. I love how complicated the characters and how diverse they are when it comes to identity and such. We follow one character who i think should have their own spin off series since what they are doing feels quite separated from the other characters. There are seven books in this series (I think) and I wonder if I will read the rest. This book was given to me by a family member who bought the books. It’s an indie author. I was told by someone online that the author has used AI in star work. It appears to be true and starself seems proud of it. Don’t like that. What a shame. Not reading further into the series.  

-The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leong started April 23, 2025 and finished April 25, 2025- 4/5 stars. This book is quite cute. Sometimes a little too cute when things work out for the main characters. It’s fine though. The characters have suffered enough. I love the found family aspect of it all. Cosy fantasy is fun to read. I like fantasy elements when everyone and everything lives together. It was a fun read. 

-Interstellar Magachef by Lavanya Lakshminarayan started April 26, 2025 and finished April 30, 2025 - 4/5 stars. This book was pretty damn good. The main character deals with so much bullshit and xenophobia. It’s nice when things work out for her. The other main character was kind of insufferable. But it’s okay because a handful of people told her so and how she wasn’t that great of a person and needed to change. That was good stuff. Anyway, you could tell that the author really cares about food. I like that. Food is very much appreciated in this book. I honestly thought that the whole book was going to deal with the cooking show but the main character gets kicked off first due to xenophobia. What was interesting is when authors don’t have complete quotation marks when their characters talk. Another interesting thing were some of the character’s names. Serenity, Curiosity, Courageous, Good Nature, and etc were the first part of their names. It made things a little confusing to keep track of who was who. There was a character who was a xenophobic bully and she was quite annoying to read about. The main character and the other main character share a kiss and have feelings for each other which is weird because one of them is insufferable and I don’t understand this. Overall a pretty great book though. 

-The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn by Tri Vuong started and finished April 30, 2025- 4/5 stars. Man, graphic novels always leave you wanting more don’t they? It never feels complete. I picked this up because I finished the previous book earlier than I thought I would and I needed something to read for the rest of my work shift. Anyway, this graphic novel sounded like something I would read novels of. It sounded like urban fantasy. And I think it was? Oscar Zahn is such an interesting character. I want to read more about his background. The artwork was simply gorgeous. It was a good read.

[taenique]

[cracklewink]

I know its not canon but I always liked the idea that Flurry Heart grew up to be a normal pony. Never went on any princess-title-earning quest, no grand magical destiny, no real royal responsibilities. Just a normal pony (who happens to be an alicorn) free to enjoy life with her friends and hobbies

[gatekeeper-of-witchcraft]

there are people in the occult/witchcraft world, particularly men and male-identified women, who haaaate the actual, historical fact that witch accusations and hunts were (and still are in many parts of the world) overwhelmingly motivated by sexism, overwhelmingly targeting women. they’ll go to great lengths to obscure this fact, to downplay it when they do acknowledge it, because they hate the fact that women have a unique (and dare I say exclusive) association with witchcraft and right to inherit and reclaim that word and stream of magical practice

[dailydegurechaff]

Maid day part three idea: Vooren Grantz is the young master of the house and covers Tanya's mistake. (The reason why he was in the maid outfit in the first part is because he knew it would had made her happy.) [P.S. As always, your art is amazing and beautiful. Lots of love from one friend to another.]

Today’s Daily Degurechaff is… maid tanya, who's NOT getting fired !!