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por Benedict Jacka

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Séries: Alex Verus (6)

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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:National bestselling author Benedict Jacka returns to the world of Alex Verus...
I thought Iâ??d escaped my past. But my old master is back and making a new play for power. And heâ??s not the only one targeting meâ?¦
Diviner Alex Verus and the Council that governs the magical community have never gotten along. But with his former teacher back in Britain, Alex is in desperate need of allies, and heâ??ll do whatever it takes to get themâ??even if it means accepting a job with the Keepers, enforcing magical law.
Alex forms an uneasy alliance with his new partner, Caldera, but his attempt at legitimacy quickly turns lethal when a mission puts him in possession of an item that factions both inside and outside of the Council would kill to get their hands on.
Once again caught in the middle of a deadly conflict, Alex will need all his abilities to figure out who his friends areâ??especially when enemies are hidin
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Alex has just about settled into his role as part of the Light - defending mages and occasionally investigating potential breaches of the informal covenants that keep them from the awareness of the greater populace. Once such routine incident suddenly assumes greater importance when he's attacked by an unrelenting Air mage with little concern for secrecy. Alex manages to just about escape alive and becomes aware that a trinket he'd discovered could be more important than expected.

Behind the scenes of the corridors of power there are factions and secrets and peccadillos - some more serious than others. Everything has been a careful balance of the status quo - not something that Alex is particularly interested in keeping given that it means the exploitation of innocents, something Alex already has enough loading his conscience.

Another fine installment always fun and interesting. It's particularly noteworthy how Jacka has managed to keep the power levels realistic and prevented Alex from gaining new abilities, instead he has to be even cleverer as the opponents are significnatly more powerful than he is. ( )
  reading_fox | Sep 10, 2023 |
This novel keeps the slowed down speed of the story. Not in the action - everyone gets in trouble again but in the main storyline - Richard is still in the shadows (even if we met him at the end of the last book) and Alex is doing everything he can to ignore the fact that he is back. And the best way to do that is to become one of the Keepers (or the next close thing to it anyway).

The main plot of the novel involves an organization which supplies slaves to whoever has the money to buy them. Add magic and they are even nastier than they sound on paper. Except that as it turns out, nothing is black and white in the world and the Council is not really made of upstanding mages who never do wrong. So when the battle for White Rose starts, you never know whose side anyone is on. Alex being Alex refuses to play politics, goes after the bad people and... ends up in a pickle (as usual). The problem with taking down highly connected bad people down is that there are always worse ones behind them and the connections usually mean trouble. A lot of it. A Senior Council mage gets offended enough to threaten Alex (again) and by the end it is not really clear if all that was done, despite being noble, did not open the door for a bigger evil (which in Alex's word is of course Richard Drahk (with Morden and a few more new affiliates).

One of the things I always liked about the series is the Dark/Light concept - death mages can be Light, life mages can be Dark. It is not really about good or evil (well, most mages believe it is but being a Dark mage does not make you evil - it just marks you like someone who does not care about the rules). Alex is starting to slowly realize that he will need to make a choice finally - sitting on the sidelines and being independent does not seem like a viable option long term. But as with the Richard story, the final choice is not here yet and when it comes, it is unclear if Alex won't chose the dark side - everyone thinks he is there anyway. Meanwhile Luna has a new teacher (a dark mage) who helps with her chance magic and Anne and Variam had become firm allies with Alex after the disruptions in the previous books. Add Caldera (who may be a bit too straight-laced to become an ally but is getting there) and Landis and Alex is definitely not the lonely mage we met at the start of book 1 anymore. ( )
  AnnieMod | Sep 8, 2022 |
Really loving this series, and especially appreciating the agonizing choices that Verus continues to make -- yes really, if you thwart this one guy it will help your other enemy, even if that one guy is also a douche. Way to make the best choices you can anyway, Verus. I'm hoping it works out for you. ( )
  jennybeast | Apr 14, 2022 |
Es ist faszinierend, aber Band 6 scheint auf eine Art so wie gewohnt zu sein, auf eine andere wirkt es aber doch irgendwie anders. Trotzdem ist es immer noch genauso gut, wie die fünf vorangegangenen Bücher. Vielleicht liegt es an den neuesten Entwicklungen, wie dem Schritt von Alex zu den Wächtern zu gehen, dass die Handlung nun also viel dort spielt und mehr andere Charaktere zusammen mit Alex eine größere Rolle spielen, als die gewohnten Charaktere. Vielleicht ist es aber auch die Tatsache, dass die Geschichte im allgemeinen düsterer wirkt. Spannend ist es auf jeden Fall, wenn auch gleichzeitig durchaus schockierend. Hier muss ich auch direkt erwähnen, dass für manch einen Leser eventuell eine Triggerwarnung angebracht wäre. !!Wer meine Warnung nicht lesen will, da sie auf ein erst im Verlauf auftauchendes Geschehen hinweist, sollte erst im nächsten Absatz weiterlesen und das hier ignorieren!! Es kommt der Punkt, an dem eine Organisation auftaucht, die mit Sklaverei und Missbrauch arbeitet. Es werden solche Szenen zwar nicht geschrieben, aber man begegnet durchaus den Opfern und es spielt eine nicht zu kleine Rolle im Geschehen. Wenn man das also nicht gut verkraftet, sollte man sich vielleicht überlegen, ob man die Geschichte lesen möchte oder nicht.

So viel zu dem Thema.
Das Buch wirft wieder sehr die menschlichen Abgründe auf. Man erkennt einmal mehr, dass es mehr als Schwarz und Weiß gibt, und dass die vermeintlich guten, eben auch nicht unbedingt genau das sind. Dass auch diese ihre dunklen Geheimnisse haben, Dreck am stecken haben und unter Umständen die eigentlichen bösen sind. Manchmal frage ich mich, wie sich Weißmagier überhaupt als gut bezeichnen können - im Grunde nehmen sich die Schwarzmagier und Weißmagier meiner Meinung nach tatsächlich nicht viel. Aber genau das zeichnet auch ein so außerordentlich realistisches Bild, finde ich. Denn es ist eine Tatsache dass dieses durch und durch Gute meist einfach nur ein Märchen ist. Nach außen sieht vieles anders aus, als es am Ende wirklich ist. Und das macht diese Geschichte auch spannend. Man weiß nie genau aus welcher Richtung was kommt, oder ob das vermutete auch zutrifft. Selbst wenn es offensichtlich daher kommt, hinterfragt man es.

Mich hat die Wendung und der Inhalt der Geschichte sehr überrascht. Ich war tatsächlich etwas überrumpelt, als mir das Ausmaß bewusst wurde. Dennoch war es wirklich spannend und ich habe stark mitgefiebert und gerätselt. Manches habe ich erwartet, anderes kam dann doch ein wenig anders als gedacht. Aber im Großen und Ganzen war es wieder eine wirklich gelungene Fortsetzung, die mich sehr gespannt auf den nächsten Band warten lässt. Seit Band vier verbindet sich das Geschehen immer offensichtlicher, um zu einem großen Gesamtziel hinzuführen - jedenfalls fühlt es sich so an. Ich bin gespannt, was dieses Ziel am Ende sein wird.

Gefreut habe ich mich hier aber vor allem darüber, dass die Beziehung zwischen Alex und seinen freunden wieder besser ist als im fünften Band. Die Charakterentwicklung und die Dynamik zwischen diesen finde ich einfach super. Auch wie Alex sich und sein Handeln durchaus immer mal hinterfragt. Ich kann die Reihe empfehlen. ( )
  Andersleser | Jun 12, 2021 |
Another solid edition, but it suffers from being less personal on any front. I mean, Verus as a probationary Keeper (a cop) of the Light Mages? It sounds like the plot needed a bit of stretching, to me, but okay, I'll get over it, let's see where this takes us.

Politics. Of course, it has to be politics.

Fun fight scenes, interesting developments in the mage world, and a pretty glorious take-down mission full of intrigue and double-crossings, but like I said, less of a personal novel. There's no new grand reveals or anything when it comes to Verus or his friends. If it wasn't for the politics and the sense that some major shit is going to come down in the upcoming novels, I'd almost say to prospective readers to skip this one, but it was still entertaining even if it felt more like a military action than an UF novel during the last quarter of the novel.

To each their own. I still thought it was good. ( )
  bradleyhorner | Jun 1, 2020 |
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Fantasy. Fiction. HTML:National bestselling author Benedict Jacka returns to the world of Alex Verus...
I thought Iâ??d escaped my past. But my old master is back and making a new play for power. And heâ??s not the only one targeting meâ?¦
Diviner Alex Verus and the Council that governs the magical community have never gotten along. But with his former teacher back in Britain, Alex is in desperate need of allies, and heâ??ll do whatever it takes to get themâ??even if it means accepting a job with the Keepers, enforcing magical law.
Alex forms an uneasy alliance with his new partner, Caldera, but his attempt at legitimacy quickly turns lethal when a mission puts him in possession of an item that factions both inside and outside of the Council would kill to get their hands on.
Once again caught in the middle of a deadly conflict, Alex will need all his abilities to figure out who his friends areâ??especially when enemies are hidin

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