The Consumption of Magic - T.J. Klune

Title: The Consumption of Magic (Tales From Verania 3)
Author: T.J. Klune
Genre: Fantasy
Rating: 4/5
# pages: Audiobook ~17hrs
Date read: May 2018, June 2020

Sam of Wilds faced the Dark wizard Myrin and lived to tell the tale. Granted, the battle left him scarred, but things could be a hell of a lot worse.

It's not until he reunites with Morgan of Shadows and Randall that he realizes just how much worse things could be.

Because the scars have meaning and hint at Myrin's true plans for Sam and the Kingdom of Verania.

With time running out, Sam and his band of merry misfits - the unicorn Gary, the half-giant Tiggy, Knight Commander Ryan Foxheart, and the dragon known as Kevin - must travel to the snowy mountains in the North and the heart of the Dark Woods to convince the remaining dragons to stand against Myrin. Along the way, Sam learns secrets of the past that will forever change the course of the future.

A reckoning is coming for Sam of Wilds, and there is nothing he can do to stop it.


I knew going into this that it was very much a transitional novel - the second novel in a trilogy type of thing - and this was very true. Nothing was really resolved, and while it didn't end on a cliff-hanger, it was blatantly obvious that there was more to the story. Still, there was character development, there were more dragons, there were new issues to overcome, there was a tad too much foreshadowing (but thankfully fairly contained) and there was just as much banter and sass between Sam, Gary, Tiggy and Kevin as I had expected. I "read" this as an audiobook narrated by Michael Lesley. He does a brilliant job of making all the characters come to life, and it's one of the few circumstances where I actually prefer the audio version to the written one (usually I have no preference either way). So good!