Title: Destroyer of Worlds
Author: Humphrey Quinn (Rachel H. Daigle)
Date: 2018
Publisher: Rachel H. Daigle
Quote: "[I]f Colin had befallen some tragic end, she'd know."
"Befallen" is something tragic ends do to people, not the other way round. This is volume 5 of 6, at the time of printing, in the series that I started with Child of Chaos. The "she" who is using her magical gift of Firemancy to find out what's happened to Colin is his twin sister Meghan, who tried to murder him in volume 4 before they found out that he's magically protected from death. They still love each other, in their dysfunctional way, as they try to find out which of the other magic-gifted humans they know may be the parents who left them in an orphanage. Meghan never really wanted Colin dead; she had been told that that was the way to keep him from developing unbearable, eventually evil, magical powers.
Too bad for her. It may be too bad for him, too. In this volume Colin is fully initiated into his magical powers, whatever good or evil he may later do with them.
There are lots of plots and subplots, all with roots in the first three volumes the author didn't send out to market the series on Book Funnel, and lots of questions of which of the mostly unlovable magic-wielding characters are good or evil as well as which ones are related to the twins. It's not my kind of fantasy but it might be yours.
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