The Magician's Brother

The Magician's Brother, Book 1

By: HDA Roberts

Narrated by: Kevin Kemp

In my world, magic is an everyday thing.

It's on street corners; it's in our schools; our homes, and even our governments. Magic carpets share the sky with jets, international boxing shares air time with magical duelists. It's a whole mess, but nobody consulted me before outing every mage on the planet.

My twin brother is a Wizard and thinks he's the only magician in the family. It's actually a little funny that he hasn't suspected anything different over the last 17 years - with my constantly need to keep his idiot face out of danger and stupidity - but that's not today's problem. You see, someone's trying to kill him.

It started off with a shadow monster that was all but immune to my magic attacking him at school, and it went steadily downhill from there, meandering through an encounter with a succubus - a species I was told categorically didn't exist anymore - to nearly getting abducted by murderous homeless men and blasted by the government's anti-magic police. And that was just Monday!

Now, I'm trying to help the idiot while also doing my level best to keep him from finding out about my own powers (which are frankly so sinister that I was terrified of my own shadow for the first decade of my life). I have to make sure, in my blundering about, trying to solve a mystery that I can't trust the Supernatural Crimes Authority to investigate correctly, that I don't draw the attention of the people with horrific monsters at their beck and call. Family can be such a pain....

©2021 HDA Roberts (P)2021 Podium Audio

Great book!

I was pleasantly surprised by this book and I'm excited to see where this series goes. Definitely deserves more attention and reviews.

amusing and fun

it was well written and interesting. it was different and unexpectedly sarcastic. i can't wait to read the rest

The narration made it!

This is a really good listen. The story is good and I like the rapid development of the primary character but the narrator made the book!

Super compelling and fun read!

The narrator of the book, Kevin Kemp, was incredibly compelling. I enjoyed every bit of snarky inflection, the clearly defined characters, and how his tone brought all the emotion and action to life.

Some of the delivery gave me David Tennant as The Doctor vibes when he was hedging what he was saying (“Weeeeell…”).

Can’t wait to see more from the author, HDA Roberts, and the narrator, Kevin Kemp.

Enjoyed! Different take on magic

This book was enjoyable. No constant defeat. Subtle underdog using his intelligence. Didn’t disappoint. Look forward to the next book.