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

worth the wait

its a wonderful book. it brings everything close to the end. i cant wait for the next one

always a good read

good read and a good catch up sense it been a bit sense the last book came out. really good listen. I only listen to this one at normal speed because it's so fun to listen.

Corin becoming more annoying

SPOILERS AHEAD. Minor spoilers but have to warn you.
Overall the story was great but Corin is getting ridiculous. Anyone on planet gets hurt and he's in agony because it's his fault for both not stopping it and for not giving e or healing them after. He had nothing to do with it..? Doesn't matter...he thinks it's his fault anyway.
oh yeah, he has a touch aversion in chapter 1 and tells us about it. Then again in chapter 2 and tells us about it. a You guessed it, chapter 3. And yet again and again. It's too much
Also, where was the editor..?? Went and risked 2 lives to try and get a boon to get hand back. When it comes time to ask for the boon his friend with missing hand needs to be talked into asking for her hand back because even tho there is no one else to help she feels guilty for asking..??? c'mon. That's just silly. She was injured so bad she couldn't walk but didn't earn the boon..?
much of story is awesome, especially Karis but stuff like this is just too much.

I want more!

Andrew Rowe is a genius! I love the arcane Ascension world that he has built and I love how deep he dives into magic theory. It makes it more satisfying when the characters accomplish some seemingly impossible task. My only complaints are the book was too short and I wish there was a more robust online wiki page. Haha

Sooooo good!!!

Well told story with awesome hell yeah moments. If you haven’t yet, read the first three books starting with Six Sacred Swords for key character intros.

you can tell a book is good when it goes too fast

I feel like I only had this for a couple days at most and the storyline was so compelling that I just had to keep listening to it. never a dull moment with this story and Nick Pohdel

slow build

I still believe less of the constant repeating of mathematical calculations on power levels, less tslking about how far Caiden or others are above or below a level. it's very tedious. Why is it after everything they've been through they still act like dumb teenagers on day 1? they've all grown but seem incapable of stopping to think for 30 seconds vs running off half cocked with a half thought out plan.

some parts of this book could have been much better, the introduction of the Show Off didn't glow right. it just seemed tossed in for no reason. How about what happened with the Hyrophant? seemed rushed with lots of left out details. Mara and Patrick foung unknown special training? for what? btw I hate hate hate Patrick. his foolish faith and naivety annoy me to no end. He's the dumbest of the group and refuses to just shut up and listen ever.

Last but not least, We've spent all this time with the MC and his group but I think you need at the very least some side chapters explaining what is going on in the Towers. what exactly are the visages? Why are they fighting exactly? why is it they refuse to let anybody speak to the so called Goddess? better yet whete is she? they work for her. why is she letting this occur? we need some details on these Visages that aren't just rumor

reoccurrence

I loved the slew of reoccurring battles from Corins past foes! "Showoff's" performance was absolute gold! The book felt a tad short but with the next one coming out in a matter of months hard to knock off any points for that! Overall it might be my favorite so far, the pacing was excellent and a ton of questions were either answered or elaborated on!

Good narration and good story

I was so excited for this book. I could not wait to see what the next adventure would bring. While I really liked this book, I just felt… It was missing a little something. It seemed a little mysterious, and while it had a lot of action. It also seemed to lack a little bit of the flavor from the past four books. I definitely will continue on with the series, and I do not mind a cliffhanger, I just felt that it wasn’t as satisfying as the previous.

Good progression

Overall, good book, but it’s getting way too overly technical. Adding more words so I can submit my review.