Chapter 1 - Detritus Lane

Welcome to the Stealing from Wizards podcast. This is the free audiobook version of the children’s fantasy novel, Stealing from Wizards Volume 1. It’s a story of magic, mystery, theft, and friendship set at a school for young witches and wizards in the magical fairy lands of Canada. Chapter one joins our protagonist as he struggles to survive in the poorest of places in the magical lands, Detritus lane.

A good story, read well.

There are a lot of stories out there about adolescents going to magic boarding schools but no other series I’ve read with that general concept does such an excellent job integrating “real” mythology into the setting half as effectively as this one.

I loved it as a text book series first and was happily as pleased with the audio version, voices always fit the characters, who themselves are interesting and believable, and pacing was excellent.