Imperial Wizard Omnibus: Books 1-3

De: J. Parsons

Narrado por: Matt Hicks, Melissa Green

Three Volumes in a single offering!

An age has passed, a blight curses the land, and one hero stands above the rest to restore the balance.

Verdan Blacke is an Imperial Wizard, a researcher by preference but soldier by necessity. Surviving an intense battle, Verdan is cursed by a hex witch in her final moments. Without any good options, Verdan escapes the ever-increasing pain the curse inflicts by performing a self-made stasis ritual.

When the spell fades, and he has awoken, Verdan finds a world completely different from the one he left behind. Dark things work in daylight with impunity, once common knowledge is a mystery, and even the nature of magic that humans use has changed.

One wizard, a million problems, and the wrath of profound magic.

©2025 J. Parsons (P)2025 Royal Guard Publishing LLC

I liked the setting, and the premise

Overall I liked this book, it's not perfect though.

Good:
The premise.
The magic system
The protagonist's keeping to his ideals
And other things, but it's a lot easier to remember bad things.

Bad:
I found it hard to understand several of the characters voices, so they were side characters.
I did not like that so much time was spent from the viewpoint of someone who is not the protagonist. Even at some points when they were together.
I would have preferred that more time was spent exploring the magic system of the protagonist, and powering up. Across the three books, I don't feel like the protagonists was that much stronger than he was at the beginning.
Throughout all three books it felt like the protagonists was moving from crisis to crisis, never having time to settle down.