When Wizards Follow Fools

Arcane Ascension, Book 5

De: Andrew Rowe

Narrado por: Nick Podehl

Corin Cadence has been summoned to meet with the Emerald Council, a political summit including the most powerful of all attuned and their closest political allies.

His summons came with a dire warning—that war was coming to the nation of Valia. While Valia is no stranger to warfare, the circumstances of this invasion are dire.

Valia's visage, Tenjin, remains missing. Many of the nation's leaders were slain during Mizuchi's attack, and others killed or injured through Saffron's machinations. With a critical power vacuum in Valia's leadership, few can be trusted.

Surrounded by old enemies, tenuous allies, and strangers with their own agendas, Corin will need to leverage every skill he's learned to help salvage his nation's fate.

Includes a sneak peek—in both PDF and audio—of Edge of the Woods, book one of The Lost Edge series set within the Arcane Ascension universe and available now in ebook, print, and audio!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2022 Andrew Rowe (P)2025 Podium Audio

Are The Characters Still Developing?

So the overall story is good. The series started off strong and the new story arc is fun. What I can't understand is the reasoning behind continuing to keep the group emotionally and socially fragile. Like they have not grown at all; still whiney, still can't handle low pressure situations, and yet still this group of teens for whatever reason have a voice in global governmental and religious affairs. Corin can't talk to his 6 non sexual romantic love interests of various entities, his teachers, or his friends, freezes in a fight still but then when some stuff needs to happen he's briefly batman. I'm getting whiplash.

All in all though decent story, but I do hope the characters find some strength at some point.

This series keeps getting better and better

The development of the characters and entire world is fantastic. Narration is awesome as well. Keep it up!

Love the fact that people think this good work needs skipped!

Good book gets a lot of hate for not being very progressive but it'd needed to be here if we never found out about the emerald dorks we would be confused about what's happend and people for be pissed about that (people are saying that this book needs skipped wtf) this man is pumping out real work!!!

Detailed Magic system

Big fan of the in-depth magic system in this series. Getting really invested in the story can’t wait for the next book.

a story that never fails to delve deeper

Andrew Rowe delivers another an incredible addition of arcane ascension. and Nick brings it to life in a way only he can.

One of the best worlds

I would kill to read multiple books in this world with any other sane characters. Rowe is a master of magic systems and world building. There is literally no one better. Losing 40% of the book to each characters mental quirks and another 10% to the ethics debates over inanimate objects is exhausting. Still worth reading, but the War of Broken Mirrors was so much better.

love everyone of these books!

The cliff hangar at the end. But I’m excited that book 6 is already out!

thrilling story

some unexpected twists, great story overall, cant wait for the next installment in this series.

Finally, we have answers.

I'd been frustrated with Rowe's writing for a long time largely because events always generate more questions than answers, and most of the time getting answers were too cryptic and vague to be satisfying. but finally, this book makes the narrative of AA take shape. While I would've wished it was longer to give more definitions for what the endgame looks like, I'm content with this.

Best one yet!

I love this series, but this is my favorite book yet in the series. I was afraid the series would start to drag but I listened to this in 2 days!