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The Halls of Magic #1

The Halls of Magic: Volume 1

Name: The Halls of Magic: Volume 1
Rating: 4.29 (663 reviews)
Author: Annabelle Hawthorne

Annabelle Hawthorne May 27, 2024

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Synopsis

I thought I was destined for an early grave. Apparently, fate had other plans for me.

My name is Jake. After twenty-three years of life, all I have to my name is a dead-end job and an undiagnosed metabolic disorder that has the doctors baffled.

Everything changed on my birthday when I found a magical key that followed me home. It led me to the Halls of Magic, a multiversal repository of arcane knowledge that will allow me the chance to cure my broken body and unlock arcane power.

However, the Halls are long abandoned and overrun with man-eating monsters. Also, my Spellbook looks like it’s straight out of a video game. When I turned to the Aspects of Magic for help, they broke free of their crystalline prisons and then moved in with me back on Earth. To say they have a lot to learn about being human is an understatement.
Welcome to the Halls of Magic. You never know just what you’ll learn.

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