{"id":3150,"date":"2010-03-02T15:57:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:57:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:57:16","slug":"free-listenin-spellwright-by-blake-charlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanmoher.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/news\/free-listenin-spellwright-by-blake-charlton\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Listenin’ | Spellwright by Blake Charlton"},"content":{"rendered":"

To celebrate today’s release of his debut novel, Blake Charlton, with the help of Mark D. Hines, has created an hour long (!!!) audiobook containing the prologue and first four chapters of Spellwright<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

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Spellwright Audio Sample<\/a> from Blake Charlton<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Imagine a world in which you could peel written words off a page and make them physically real. You might pick your teeth with a sentence fragment, protect yourself with defensive paragraphs, or thrust a sharply-worded sentence at an enemy\u2019s throat.<\/p>\n

Such a world is home to Nicodemus Weal, an apprentice at the wizardly academy of Starhaven. Because of how fast he can forge the magical runes that create spells, Nicodemus was thought to be the Halcyon, a powerful spellwright prophesied to prevent an event called the War of Disjunction, which would destroy all human language. There was only one problem: Nicodemus couldn\u2019t spell.<\/p>\n

Runes must be placed in the correct order to create a spell. Deviation results in a \u201cmisspell\u201d\u2014a flawed text that behaves in an erratic, sometimes lethal, manner. And Nicodemus has a disability, called cacography, that causes him to misspell texts simply by touching them.<\/p>\n

Now twenty-five, Nicodemus lives in the aftermath of failing to fulfill prophecy. He finds solace only in reading knightly romances and in the teachings of Magister Shannon, an old blind wizard who\u2019s left academic politics to care for Starhaven\u2019s disabled students.<\/p>\n

But when a powerful wizard is murdered with a misspell, Shannon and Nicodemus becomes the primary suspects. Proving their innocence becomes harder when the murderer begins killing male cacographers one by one\u2026and all evidence suggests that Nicodemus will be next. Hunted by both investigators and a hidden killer, Shannon and Nicodemus must race to discover the truth about the murders, the nature of magic, and themselves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Hines does a wonderful job reading, and gives readers neat look at a novel in a medium that’s close to the subject matter of the novel. Charlton’s novel is a fun romp that reminded me of my early days discovering fantasy, while at the same time playing with tropes and delivering a deliciously intricate magic system. You can find my review of Spellwright<\/strong> HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To celebrate today’s release of his debut novel, Blake Charlton, with the help of Mark D. Hines, has created an hour long (!!!) audiobook containing the prologue and first four chapters of Spellwright! Spellwright Audio Sample from Blake Charlton on Vimeo. Imagine a world in which you could peel written words off a page and… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n