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Incursion (The Necromancer's Key) Paperback – June 23, 2020

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An immersive and ambitious new series from the Aurealis Award winning author of A Crucible of Souls.

A corrupted power stirs from beyond the grave.
A sacred order of knights sworn to protect the world from evil.
The Necromancer Queen will rise again.

Seventeen years have passed since the Necromancer Queen Talia was overthrown and slain, and her capital city destroyed by the Knights of the Order of Eternal Vigilance.

Anskar DeVantte, raised in the sacred disciplines of the Order, is now ready to face the brutal initiation trials to become a consecrated knight-sorcerer.

But the further Anskar rises in the ranks the more his faith wavers, and he is beset by harrowing dreams and uncertainty.As troubling powers awaken within him, a schism grows between Anskar and his hallowed Order, and he draws the hungry gaze of the vanquished queen’s fanatical followers.

As Anskar pieces together the mysteries of his early life, and begins to understand the malevolent forces gathering in his path, he finds himself with a crucial choice to make:

Remain loyal to the Order’s righteous mission, or control the dark powers growing within him.

Either way, his destiny is steeped in war.

The only question is, which side will he be on?

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Crucible Press (June 23, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 530 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0648850900
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0648850908
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.47 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.33 x 8.5 inches

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When he was eleven, Mitchell Hogan was given the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to read, and a love of fantasy novels was born. He spent the next ten years reading, rolling dice, and playing computer games, with some school and university thrown in. Along the way he accumulated numerous bookcases' worth of fantasy and sci-fi novels and doesn't look to stop anytime soon.

His first attempt at writing fantasy was an abysmal failure and abandoned after only one page. But ideas for characters and scenes continued to come to him and he kept detailed notes of his thoughts, on the off chance that one day he might have time to write a novel. For a decade he put off his dream of writing until he couldn't stand it anymore. He knew he would regret not having tried to write the novel percolating inside his head for the rest of his life. Mitchell quit his job and lived off dwindling savings, and the moral support of his fiancé, until he finished the first draft of A Crucible of Souls.

He now writes full time and is eternally grateful to the readers who took a chance on an unknown author.

A Crucible of Souls won the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Mitchell lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife, Angela, and daughters, Isabelle and Charlotte.

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D. Texeira

Diamond in the rough

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024

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Decently written. Interesting plot. Nice cover (yes I know I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but it does matter). After wading through a bunch of mediocre kindle unlimited titles one shines through. So glad I gave it a shot.

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The author did a good job of leading us by the nose until the end with a pretty big reveal. I wasn’t a big fan of one of the side characters so that did cause me to skim over a additional POV then I should’ve. Overall it was well written. Definitely will read book two.

Rating: 4/5
Cover: 4/5
Narration: NA
Favorite Line: Absence breeds fondness, they say, and I’d testify to the truth of that.

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Anders Haywood

A fantastic new book in the story of Wariya!

Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2020

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This was the perfect start to another series my one of my favourite authors. Set in the world of Wariya like his other books (Revenant Winds, Shadow of the exile and more), this follows Anskar. Anskar isn't human, but was raised to be a knight in an organization that looks down on his kind. As familiar as this felt at the start, the story rapidly evolved into something unique. Although devout and determined to be the best knight he can, Anskar rapidly begins to see that his organization and those within aren't as pure and good natured as they claim to be. I don't want to go too much imto the actual story for fear of spoilers.
The story was well written, and sucked me in. The action was fast paced and intense. The characters were deep, and well fleshed out.
Prior knowledge of the other books isn't required as this works well as a stand alone.
I really loved this book, and I can't wait for more.

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Hooked me from start to finish!

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021

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Sixteen years ago, the necromancer queen died, and her island nation fell to the invading Order form the mainland. The commander of her bodyguard, a woman named Carred, is charged with finding the queen’s hidden heir and wait for the queen’s resurrection.

Now a young man is about to take his chest to join the Order, a group of sorcerer-knights who occupy Niyas, protecting the colonization that is taking place. Rooting out the rebels led by Carred and suppressing the demonic and necromantic practices of the locals, they see themselves as bringing the civilization of their god to these lands.

And Anklas is eager to finally join them. But Sareatha, a fellow knight-trainee, provides temptation that he must avoid. A native, she clings to her people’s tradition as she’s forced to abandon them. Little does Anklas know what awaits him.

Incursion was an excellent start to a great fantasy book. I was hooked from the start, and enjoyed every moment of reading it. While it’s not a standalone series, that just means there is more to come.

The magic system is great and I look forward to more of it. Action is vivid and at times brutal. The story pulls you along, having you ask questions as what is really going on.

This was a great story. I highly recommend it.

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Christopher Monceaux

Great characterization, world-building, and use of interesting themes

Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2021

This book is an excellent example of how good fantasy can be! I was hooked from the very beginning, which outlined the defeat of the necromancer queen by the knights of the Order of Eternal Vigilance and the queen's promise to eventually return from the dead. From there, the book picks up 16-17 years later and follows two main characters, Carred and Anskar. Carred is the lover and captain of the former queen, who continues to lead a rebellion in the hopes her queen will one day return. Throughout the book, she continues to fight to save her people and culture from the invading knights while struggling to maintain the motivation to do so after so many years of defeat. Most of the book follows Anskar, a teenage boy on the verge of becoming a man. He longs to be the best knight in the Order of Eternal Vigilance. He works hard to pass his trials while attempting to understand his identity and growing power in addition to grappling with a deepening understanding that the Order he has always wanted to be part of may not be all it seems.

There are so many great things about this book it is impossible to include them all in this review. The characters are well-rounded and a great deal of time is spent on building an understanding of them and their inner worlds. Great care is also given to building the world the characters inhabit. The author is very good at describing different aspects of the societies involved in the story, including the religious, political, and economic realities the characters must face. I also found the magic system in this world to be unique and intriguing and am looking forward to learning more about it in future books. I liked how the author presented the world-building information as if the reader was learning the information along with Anskar throughout the novel.

As for the topics and themes in the book, there are a lot. Some of my favorites were the tackling of racism, the exploration of the impact of oppression on indigenous people and their culture, and the highlighting of the hypocritical nature of many leaders and religious figures. I was also pleased to find some bisexual representation in the book. Most of all, I loved the way the author explored moralistic relativism and the shift of Anskar's thinking from the black and white of conventional moral reasoning to more of a post-conventional moral rationale. A lot of fantasy novels have a clear picture of who is good and evil. By the end of the novel, I was honestly questioning whose side to be on.

There is not a lot I didn't like about this book, but I do have two criticisms. First, the book was slow and wordy at times, especially in the initial third of the book. However, that was offset for me by the characterization and world-building that occurred. Second, I was able to predict the big twist from almost the beginning of the book. The author gave a lot of hints and clues throughout the novel, and I picked up on them very early on, which made the ending somewhat less impactful. Although, I was proud of myself for figuring it out. So, it didn't detract from my enjoyment of the novel that much overall.

Overall, I give Incursion 4 out of 5 stars and highly recommend it to fans of fantasy because of its great characterization, world-building, and use of interesting themes.

Thank you to Netgalley and the author for providing a free copy of the book in return for my fair and honest review.

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Eli

Readable, but disappointing ending

Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2021

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The book worked as a kind of slice of life, coming of age tale. The protagonist was sympathetic and his short term struggles were engaging.

One minor problem was that the subtextual character development stuff was kind of promoted to text. The hero spent a lot of time inside his own head, to the detriment of the external plot.

The bigger problem was that none of the internal conflicts were resolved in a satisfying manner at the end of the book. It really feels like the hero is going to spend all of book two wrestling with the exact same internal conflicts, which were already getting old by the end of book one.

I could be wrong, and the hero and the premise are interesting enough to give book two a shot, but I don’t know if I’m going to make it to the end.

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