The Magician's Brother

The Magician's Brother, Book 1

By: HDA Roberts

Narrated by: Kevin Kemp

Length: 12 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

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

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.

the best urban fantasy ever

I read this book multiple times when it was on kindle and I have been waiting for it to come to audible for so long I am so happy it's finally here I listened to it again now and it's even better than I remembered 10 out of 10 would read again

Better than the sum of its parts.

It's a typical "light novel" style coming of age story, but it's better than the sum of its parts: magic school; overpowered main character; interesting supporting cast; well thought out world building. I read the entire 7 book (at the time of the writing of this review) series on Kindle before picking up the first audiobook. I can say that story stays strong. I was a bit surprised by the choice of voice for the main character -- I found him a bit mature sounding for a theoretical 17 year old -- but I got used to it. :-)

simply Amazing!

I enjoy a strong protagonist who also uses his brain. I also really like his motivations they're not "save the world" like most of these, just keeping himself and his family safe. The world building is really great too!

Really Good Start

To me most of the book was funny because of the premise that no one knows yet the few people do know they underestimated him. It's a lot of surprise face-slapping.

Strong start.

I really appreciate the balance of sexy female characters to nerdy good guy MC. His inner dialogue was thoroughly enjoyable.

Great book

Great book - easy to listen too. Can’t wait until the next book. Overall I give it an A