Reading Vlog | An Inheritance of Magic 

Urban fantasy is always fast and easy in the beginning. Some stay that way; Dresden and Verus do not. Verus especially surprises with its character work later down the line, and I can already sense Jacka laying the seeds for a similar escalation in characters and plot here

I love this style of vlogs, it gives me a much better idea of whether a book is for me or not.

I enjoyed the vlog style. The bloopers werefun too!

It is always interesting watching your videos. Thank you very much for sharing your readings! I keep adding and adding new books to my books-to-read list after watching your videos. Greetings from Barcelona!

You're a natural at this vlogging thing!! Loved hearing your thougths on this, I've been very curious about this book. I think Jacka's other series, the Alex Verus series, is actually his take on the Dresden style fantasy so it's interesting to hear you make a similar comparison to that series and this new book. Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, definitely gonna keep this on my radar! 🥰

I liked the vlogs! Looking forward to the next one.

I enjoyed this style of vlog. It was nice to hear your thoughts as you were reading it. I am a Benedict Jacka fan and loved his "alex verus" series, so I pre-ordered this and read it a couple of days ago. In terms of prose and writing style I think you're 100% on target with the quick, easy read. It is very similar in style to the Dresden Files. I call it "fast-fiction", books where I can sit down at the end of the night with a few hours to spare and read a whole book. This naturally lends itself to a serialized story and that's a lot of the urban fantasy genre. I don't know that I necessarily agree with the comparisons to Rowe's "Sufficiently Advanced Magic" series. While that was very much the epitome of LitRPG, I just never got the dungeon crawling (or in Rowe's case Spire crawling :) feel like so much LitRPG though there is obviously very much the power up/level up aspect that is core to Jacka's story and Stephen's motivation. I suppose the good and bad of this "fast-fiction" style is that it's action heavy and character light. I've found in reading this style that it can take a few books in a series before characters really start getting flushed out to the reader but I think that's just the nature of action over character developments. Thanks for your insights and I hope you find an opportunity to continue the series when the next book comes out.

I have this one on my book haul pile but haven’t gotten around to reading it yet

Hi 👋 great vlog!! 🎉