Review: Burned by Magic (The Baine Chronicles Book 1) by Jasmine Walt

Burned by Magic by Jasmine Walt
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Interesting Alternate World Urban Fantasty

I really enjoyed this first book of the series, set in an alternate world where there are three main races, humans, shifters and the mages that rule them all. Mages are not particularly liked the other two races because they treat them like the dirt beneath their feet. Mages have all the power and they are happy to keep it.

Sunaya Baine, is a hybrid shifter/mage and has kept that secret her entire life. She doesn’t know who her father is and her mother died when she was 10 years old and took the secret with her. Sunaya doesn’t have a good relationship with the rest of her family and was pretty much raised by an enforcer, which is why Sunaya is one too. She’s worked hard to keep her magic a secret because in this world hybrid magic users are either killed or stripped of their magic, which often leaves them mentally damaged.

Sunaya is hot headed, passionate and determined to do the right thing. She’s an interesting character and I enjoyed reading about her antics. Her difficulties once her magic is discovered do not stop her trying to get justice for the dead, even if it means going head to head with the Chief Mage of the state, a mage that is cold, logical and still manages to have flashes of compassion. His character is even more fascinating that Sunaya, because we know so little about him, as we only see him through Sunaya’s eyes.

This is an ongoing series, and I’m interested to see how the story continues, as though the short term problems are resolved, the long term problems are still left dangling. There aren’t any cliffhangers, but there is definitely incentive to read the next book in the series, just to see what happens next.

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