While Waiting for Harry Potter

Categories: Science Fiction & Fantasy , Staff Picks , Fiction

Read the books.  Saw the movies.  Listened to the audio books.  Waiting for the next Harry Potter appearance.  Sigh. 

Good News!  There are other authors writing about wizards.

My latest favorite wizard-writing author is Martha Wells.  The Fall of Ile-Rien is full of magic, wizards and a quest.  Tremaine Valiarde has the last magical sphere that might help the wizards of her country combat the enemy known as The Gardier. 

Like many other fantasy novels, a group of varied individuals, slowly form a family unit going outside the bounds of Ile-Rien society. Together they turn the tide of war, culminating in a final battle of wits and wizardry.

I really enjoy reading series that take three or more books to fully explore magical worlds and their rules governing magic.  Wells writes a  fast-paced and enjoyable fantasy for anyone craving wizards.

I'm still waiting for the Harry Potter to come,  but I'm reading and enjoying other wizards right now!

The Wizard Hunters - Book One of the Fall of Ile-Rien

Ships of Air - Book Two of the Fall of Ile-Rien

The Gate of Gods - Book Three of the Fall of Ile-Rien

Bonus:  Wells wrote an earlier book about Ile-Rien.  The Death of the Necromancer, set twenty years before the trilogy.  It's not necessary to read this title first but it helps identify some of the characters.