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Title: The Impossible Wizard

Subtitle: Aegis of Merlin Series, Book 1

Author: James E. Wisher

Narrator: Joe Hempel

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 29 votes

Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Fantasy: Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

With magic, nothing's impossible.

Everyone knew it was impossible for men to do magic, until it happened.

Conryu Koda is a young man of modest ambition. All he wants is to work on bikes and practice Kung Fu. His modest dreams die on the day of The Testing when it's revealed he has wizard potential.

When the Department of Magic announces that a male wizard has been found it draws the attention of the Le Fay Society, a radical group of wizards that view men as little better than animals and Conryu as an abomination. The Society will stop at nothing to see Conryu dead.

Members Reviews:

Very good

The Impossible Wizard is a very good book. I really enjoyed listening to it the narrator did a wonderful job in reading the book and making it come alive. The writer did an excellent job in writing a good plot and keeping your attention throughout the book. I would have liked to learned more about Conryu though.

Great Start!

This book is a great start to an entertaining series! The narration is wonderful and the story is super interesting. My only issue is that the story just sort of stops. Your left missing something. The person who should be the main character is not present in the last quarter of the book. If the series was not presented to be wrapped around the one character then this would be fine, but since it is, I think we needed a bit more from him.

I am excited for the second book!

Worth a listen but just missed the mark

Any additional comments?

I was immediately intrigued by the prospect of following a young man who thinks he has his life planned out only to find he is, shockingly, the first male wizard since possibly Merlin. His world is going to be upended because he has not been trained in any way in magic. No males are. And to top it off there are various groups who now want to kill him for upsetting the order of things and being an aberration. The book follows the police investigation of the attempted murder of the young man.

The negatives for me are that: 1.) There is no real description of the world where the story takes place. How does magic fit in this world? Is there any theory as to why only females can be wizards? 2.) The main character seemed to be away through a good part of the story and as a result i didn't get a good feeling of back story for him. 3.) We never made it to the wizard college which I was looking forward to (Not expecting Hogwarts here).

Assuming these things are addressed in later volumes my negatives are relatively minor.

The book is well written and Mr. Hempel does an admirable job of telling the story. The pace is good and I really liked the action sequences.

I do recommend giving this book a try. I know I will be looking into the second book in the series.

This review copy audiobook was provided by the narrator free of charge via Audiobook Boom.