“Imagine if George RR Martin’s A Song of Fire and Ice series had a sense of humor and characters (both good and evil) you didn’t hate rooting for. What if instead of a bleak travelogue and mind-numbing palace intrigue you had a mystical Middle Kingdom burrowed within Ireland and shadowy Vatican magic hunters. You don’t have to imagine it because Mark Tompkins’s novel, The Last Days of Magic, exists! My tolerance for fantasy is pretty low, but this novel never lost my interest. The characters are memorable (even the ones that don’t make it to the end), and the story contains charming magical twists on humanity’s Dark Ages”
