Book Review: “Touch of the Mage”

About Touch of the Mage

Life at the academy just got… messy.

I’ve always dreamed of getting into a top college, but after a stint in juvie, my school prospects went sideways fast. Now I work at a magic academy…as a janitor. Ironic, right?

Okay, so maybe I get a kick out of secretly solving the arcane equations the professors leave on the board for the rich, entitled student wizards. I’m broke, not stupid.

Except then I get caught by the hottest mage on campus…who ropes me into helping him and his three equally gorgeous friends win a decidedly screwed-up magic competition.

Easy enough, I think—until I start setting things on fire and getting chased by smoke-faced monsters and fighting side by side with four of the sexiest, most powerful wizards ever…and find myself—just maybe—falling in love…

With all of them.

Whoops.

Purchase Link: https://www.amazon.com/Touch-Mage-Boston-Magic-Academies-ebook/dp/B0CR9JNRNF/

My Review of Touch of the Mage

I received a free digital copy of Touch of the Mage, by Jennifer Chance through ( ). All opinions stated here are my own.

Touch of the Mage is a new adult academy romance, and book 1 of Jennifer Chance’s Twyst Academy series. Although I’ve heard of the new adult category, I’m not sure I’ve read one before. The characters have the same hopes and dreams as those in a young adult book, but there’s more emphasis on romance story lines and adult language is acceptable in new adult literature.

As book 1 in the series, this tale does a great job of introducing the main characters and laying out the rules of the world where Twyst Academy exists. It gives the reader just enough to know that all is not as it should be and wanting to see what else awaits. And after all, isn’t that what a series starters should do?

Believing her special talents to be a curse that she doesn’t know how to control, Maddigan Pierce just tries to get by in life by blending into the woodwork as a janitor, and becoming invisible to the students and faculty of Twyst Academy, where talented witches and wizards are thinned down to the best of the best.

But once Connor notices her, she finds herself bonded with a group of four of Twyst’s most promising wizards, and she’s throwing flames and battling beside the four hottest wizards on campus in the Mage Trials.

But, fighting magical foes isn’t the least of her problems, as Maddigan finds herself attracted to all four of her new teammates, with feelings that may be heightened due to their bonding.

Touch of the Mage is a fun and entertaining story that will leave you wanting more. The perfect series starters. I give it five quills.

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