Aspirant

Ends of Magic, Book 5

By: Alexander Olson

Narrated by: Phil Thron

The Ascendent Academy has fallen, but Nathan's journey is just beginning.

He has a mission—to journey across Davrar to find Sarya Pamaris, a friendly Questor who can begin to answer his questions. Hopefully she will reveal to him the secrets of the Endings, and how to stop them.

On the way, Nathan and his friends must contend with the remnants of Giantsrest, the catspaws of Questors and above all the terrifying dangers of Davrar itself. They have risen to the level of the elites, and that means those threats have noticed them. Because on Davrar, Nathan is sure of one thing.

There's always another danger over the horizon.

©2025 Alexander Olson (P)2025 Tantor Media

Blasphemously Good Character Development

The author has definitely refined a lot of the characters in this book into something quite detailed. The world building is also quite exquisite. I have hated and loved the choices of the main character, which is something that a lot of authors don’t dare to do and leave a lot of characters one-dimensional. I think this effort to take us on a true journey of fallibility gives us something much more genuine than most can achieve. Earlier on, I grew to hate the main character’s seeming patriarchal tendencies, but the author shows us a departure and growth from this and does not do it in an accelerated timeframe that is unrealistic, but superficially pleasing to the reader.

The reveals in this book were great.

Favorite book of the bunch and such a good twist on the genre.
Hopefully looking forward to a long series with a super strong Mc at the end.

Decent story line.

If you like 6 to 9 chapters explaining how the world works and magic. You'll like this. Worth the listen, but now that I'm on book i skipped entire chapters on magic, science theory. Worth the listen. won't listen again for a few years.

Excellent addition to the series

I loved every second of this entry! I just wish there was a bit more of the story in this one. I am eagerly awaiting the next installment.

This was great!

Wow first to review this excellent experience of book 5! Love the new class for the MC. It was very on the nose, however sad that he had to give up something that was made him special in my opinion. Anyway loved how now the world is expanding to more than just one continent and we getting more insight to what the planet is what truly is the end goal for the endings. Looking forward to the next book it will be well worth the wait!