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Normally I wouldn't have read something called The Royal Sorceress. I find my anti-matter powered spaceships to be far more believable than dragons. However I've known Chris's work for a while now so I decided to give this one a chance.

I am glad I did!

The Royal Sorceress is an excellent novel. Part of it comes from the fact it's not farmed as a standard fantasy tale, with the heroine needed to save the empire. The story is actually a work of alternate history, where a Britain which discovered magic was able to quell the American Revolution, and by 1830s become the most powerful nation on the planet. While the British Empire might be strong externally, internally it is ready for chaos. The second reason I love the story is that at the heart of it is a social conflict.

Britain is separated by the haves and have nots. A building crisis between the lower working classes and the aristocracy is coming. Hoping to ignite a proper revolution is the book's antagonist Jack. He doesn't want to rule England or release dome dark magic monster, Jack wants to liberate the lower class. This motivation and focus of the story separates it from other fantasy works. Jack isn't pure evil, nor can you really go against his cause. Chris does a good job of describing the two sides, the privilege elites of London vs the low and depressed poor of London's slums. Caught in the middle is the main character Gwen. She comes off as quite a believable character, like most of the book's cast. She is pulled between two worlds, the orderly one of the British Empire which she is being trained to serve, and the revolution Jack and his allies wish to unleash.

I do highly recommend this story and can see why this is the first work of Chris's to be published. I do hope this series continues!


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The Royal Sorceress eBook Christopher Nuttall Reviews

A fantasy written in an alternate world where the British Empire never fell nor declined and won all its colonial wars, courtesy its magician corps ruled by the Royal master magician - a mage who can wield all the magical talents. Britain has become a harsh, feudal society where you are dirt if you are neither an aristocrat nor a rich businessman, with the latter allowed to become the former with the purchase of a peerage. The common citizen has no rights, no voice. But there is a revolution at work behind the scenes and one orchestrated by no less than another powerful magician.

The current Royal magician Master Thomas is getting long in the tooth and with no suitable male heir in sight, the desperate establishment is forced to give an employment offer to the only other known wielder of all talents - Lady Gwen Crichton. Raised in a conservative family, Gwen was never expected to develop her magic and now she must train hard to live up to being the Royal apprentice.

With the possible exception of Gwen who is mostly carried atop events as they occur, there are no like-able heroes in this book. The revolution has noble aims, but when it comes to body count, it matches the establishment neck to neck. Till the very end, Gwen herself does not know which side must she take in this war.
While you may think this will be the same thing only different to Nuttall's Schooled in Magic series, it will not take but a few pages to know that you have arrived at someplace very different.

In keeping with Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, Nuttall brings a vivid and graphic description of life in the not quite Victorian era. London is still in the Georgian era, but life is still the same for the poorest of the poor. Hobbes is paraphrased to illustrate this most pointedly as an object lesson, life is nasty, brutish and short; at least for the poor.

This brings us a villain, who is not quite as evil as other villains, while actually still needing killing. I think this is more like life, you can agree with the motive, but cannot abide by the means.

Maybe one of these years I will go to London to see if everything is in walking distance as it seems to have been here. It is hard for me to fathom this while knowing that London was the biggest city on earth at the time. They must have stacked the poor like cord wood, even while still living.
A great alternate world, the US war of independence was lost.... because magic (literally). So now you have a world of failed revolutions and absolute monarchies still supremely in power (French revolution failed too, this one due to the king having guts in this universe). Mix a magically gifted female aristocrat (the horror what would the other noble families say!) and a rigid 19th century England where magic is all over the place (except in the hands of those filthy peasants of course, who would trust the rubble with such delicate arts) and you get an explosive and fascinating setting. As you might have guessed by now, the unwashed masses know the saying " third time's a charm " too. So a new revolution is brewing slowly but surely. In this volatile environment, our heroine Gwen is chosen as the next great grand magus of Britain. Wait! How is that even possible in that era? Simple... no other candidates available with the required talent... now that's a vote of confidence right there, no problems possible from any disgruntled magicians, none at all...
If this was intended as a fantasy set in an alternate reality, it fails miserably. The extreme poverty in London of the 1820s is vastly overblown. Peasants driven off the land or simply fleeing rural poverty generally found a better life in the industrial cities--London, Manchester, Birmingham, etc. That capitalism raises people from poverty is proven by history. China, Malaysia, Singapore and India are good evidence of this. So, Jack is a deluded maniac. I simply cannot feel any empathy for him and his protagonist Gwen. Neither character is likeable. This story is not on the same level as the Empire Corps or even the Schooled in Magic series. I plowed through a quarter of the book. I am sorry I bought it.
Normally I wouldn't have read something called The Royal Sorceress. I find my anti-matter powered spaceships to be far more believable than dragons. However I've known Chris's work for a while now so I decided to give this one a chance.

I am glad I did!

The Royal Sorceress is an excellent novel. Part of it comes from the fact it's not farmed as a standard fantasy tale, with the heroine needed to save the empire. The story is actually a work of alternate history, where a Britain which discovered magic was able to quell the American Revolution, and by 1830s become the most powerful nation on the planet. While the British Empire might be strong externally, internally it is ready for chaos. The second reason I love the story is that at the heart of it is a social conflict.

Britain is separated by the haves and have nots. A building crisis between the lower working classes and the aristocracy is coming. Hoping to ignite a proper revolution is the book's antagonist Jack. He doesn't want to rule England or release dome dark magic monster, Jack wants to liberate the lower class. This motivation and focus of the story separates it from other fantasy works. Jack isn't pure evil, nor can you really go against his cause. Chris does a good job of describing the two sides, the privilege elites of London vs the low and depressed poor of London's slums. Caught in the middle is the main character Gwen. She comes off as quite a believable character, like most of the book's cast. She is pulled between two worlds, the orderly one of the British Empire which she is being trained to serve, and the revolution Jack and his allies wish to unleash.

I do highly recommend this story and can see why this is the first work of Chris's to be published. I do hope this series continues!