Benedict Jacka
Autor de Fated
Sobre El Autor
Benedict Jacka is a British author who was born in England in 1980. He earned his bachelors degree in philosophy at Cambridge University. He started writing soon after graduation and authored three children's fantasy novels which were not published. His first published work was a children's mostrar más non-fantasy novel called "To be a Ninja" later changed to "Ninja: The Beginnng". In 2000 he developed a fantasy setting for which he wrote four books, whose main characters were teenage elementals. These book also went unpublished. In 2009, he decided to try again with an adult character with a more information-based ability. Three years later, in 2012, he published the first book of the Alex Verus Series, with two more to follow that year. In December 2013, an audio version of Fated was released in the US, the next three books followed. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de Benedict Jacka
The Alex Verus Novels Omnibus 1 copia
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Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1980-09-25
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
Romania
China - Educación
- University of Cambridge (BA) (philosophy)
- Ocupaciones
- civil servant
English teacher
bouncer
solicitor
author - Agente
- 5ophie Hicks
- Biografía breve
- Benedict Jacka is half-Australian, half-Armenian, and grew up in London. He’s worked as a teacher, bouncer, and civil servant, and spends his spare time skating and playing tabletop games. He’s the author of the Alex Verus series, including Bound, Burned, Veiled, Hidden, and Chosen.
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- Obras
- 21
- Miembros
- 5,820
- Popularidad
- #4,230
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 231
- ISBNs
- 139
- Idiomas
- 6
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This actually made me feel more of River of London than his other series, a sort of mix of introducing someone barely familiar to the magical world, along with a casual acceptance of the geography, it' snot entirely clear what race/heritage Stephen has, but it's not typical, again with the RoL vibe.
Stephen has been living on his own for the last few years after his dad suddenly left, his mum having died much younger. He's been making ends meet, just about, but now that he's 18, he's starting to think about a future. The one thing his dad left him was an instruction to carry on his hobby of 'drucraft' - sensing elemental magic and shaping it into sigils, the captured form that can be used for almost anything you can imagine. Stephen's not very good at it, but then he's never had any formal training. I had though we'd be heading into magic school territory, and the possibility emerges once or twice, but Stephen is too independently minded for that, and strikes his own path. He's feelings on the matter are only bolstered when he's suddenly embroiled in the plots of a pair of his formally unknown cousins. Events don't go to anyone's plan, and Stephen resolves to train himself stronger, even if it risks his friends and only income.
My only real complaint is that Stephen didn't feel 18, somewhat impulsive, yes, but too mature really too considering and too able to look after himself - although perhaps my familiaty with 18 yr olds is biased to those with a more sheltered upbringing. I enjoyed the magical world, and the hints of the power structures around give rise to interesting possibilities of an underdog against the Powers That Be, much liek the best bits of Verus.… (más)