The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex
by K.R.R. Lockhaven
GENRE: Humorous Fantasy
BLURB:
Kept hidden by the United States government for decades, the Site is a place where magic is real. But that doesn't mean that everything happening there is sparkly. Soul-sucking policies and layers of stifling bureaucracy threaten to take all the fun out of magic.
Harris, a newbie Conjurer, starts his first day of work at the Site bursting with excitement: he's been brought on for an extremely big project happening the very next day. In a triumph over its habitual inefficiency, the Site manages to carry out its plan and conjure an actual dragon to be used by the military.
The dragon (Zoth-Avarex, the self-proclaimed greatest dragon in the multiverse) immediately eats the person next to him, snatches a "princess" from the ranks of the Conjuring Department, and flies away to the Space Needle. There he manipulates the media, outwits the Site's bumbling management, demands sixty-three billion dollars' worth of treasure (because Smaug was said to have had sixty-two billion in his hoard), threatens to destroy the city—and installs a couple of food trucks.
Excerpt:
“I am here for your orientation.” The man paused before changing the picture on the screen. “So, if you leave this classroom today with one nugget of information, I want it to be this: secrecy is the number one rule. You’ve heard this before you began your specialized magical training, but it is of the upmost importance, so you’ll hear it many more times. The public isn’t ready for magic yet.” He switched the slide to a cartoon of a witch being burned at the stake. “We must first find out what it is, and how it works, before the public can find out about it. We are doing valiant work here. Holding back the chaos and making magic follow our rules.”
The next slide said only THE CURSE.
“You have all already been voluntarily cursed before magic was revealed to you. I am not here to waste your time or my own going over the gory details of The Curse, but I do want to remind you that it is real and not something you want to test. You have already gone through a vigorous clearance process. You wouldn’t have been chosen to have magic revealed to you unless you passed that screening, and showed particular aptitude for whatever your field happens to be.
“Of course, some magic is going to slip out. Other governments are dying to know what is going on here. And we’ve had considerable trouble with the Conjuring Department. Several conjured gargoyles and the like have gotten offsite and caused all kinds of havoc. Is anyone here a Conjurer?”
Harris, Silvia, and Patrick tentatively raised their hands.
“As I’m sure you know, you’ve been brought in for a major project that is about to take place any day now. Your diligence will be of the upmost importance when it does.”
My Review:
In the middle of the woods, there is a place known as the Site. The Site is kept hidden by the government with a magic bubble. The Site is a place where magic exist but it is kept hidden from the outside world. No one can enter the Site without an invitation from the government.
Harris arrives at the Site for his first day at work. He is excited and more than ready to begin work on his first day. Harris is a conjurer and on his first day, he uses his magic without permission and conjurers up a sloth-like creature by the name of Xop.
In the meantime, the Site does a little conjurer of its own it conjurers up a dragon to be used in Harris’s big project which is to start the next day. The first thing the dragon does is eat the person next to him and then take a princess hostage. The princess is Harris’s new friend, Jake’s girlfriend, Silvia, and the twin sister of Ana the girl Harris has a crush on. The dragon demands a ransom for the princes, he is asking for sixty-three billion dollars.
The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex is a fun-filled, magical read that will have you laughing out loud on more than one occasion. It is filled with magic and chaos as the dragon stomps around making all his demands known. I really liked the sloth-like creature, Xop. I liked that he wanted to hang around with Harris and help them find the princess. I could just see all this in my head as if I was standing right beside them.
I would recommend The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex to anyone who is into fantasy, dragons, and a magic-filled world! One-click your copy of The Conjuring of Zoth-Avarex to begin this epic fantasy today!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
K.R.R. Lockhaven lives with his wife and two sons in Washington State. Together, they conjured a bearded dragon named Sandy who rules over a hoard of sand and devours crickets by the dozens. When not writing or raising kids, he works as a firefighter/paramedic.
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1 comments:
Thank you very much for the review!
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