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Magnify (Storm & Spire #1)

Stefanie Lozinski

Start date: February 1, 2024

Finish date: February 29, 2024

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Feb 16, 2024 aria ✧ rated it really liked it

Shelves: buddy-read, christian-sff, i-love-dragons, self-published-sff, christian-fiction, political-intrigue, ya-sff, bookclub-faith-and-fantasy

The world could change, men could do good and work evil, but as long as the High One held His creation together, the light would always come after the darkness.

“Magnify” is the first book in the Storm & Spire series, a christian, young adult fantasy series. I discovered this author by pure chance but it being a christian fantasy with dragons, was enough to get me interested.

The spire stood at the center of the world, watching everything, presiding over the birth of babies and the
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May 25, 2023 Sharon Loves to Read rated it really liked it

Shelves: clean_g_pg, fantasy-ya, christian-fantasy, reread-multiple-times, group-read

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3.5⭐️ on reread, rounded up.

While I still felt it was paced too slowly in parts, and the book could have used some more editorial work, since I have already read the series and know the characters and plotline, I did not struggle to understand why certain things happened. (See original review below.)

Rounding up to 4⭐️ because I already know I love the characters and where this beautiful series is going.💜 This book is a great set-up for the rest of the series, which is one of my f ...more

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Feb 13, 2024 David’s old account S.S. rated it liked it

This is a 3.5 star review for me. The first half was a lot harder for me to get into but the second half I felt more connected to the characters and the overall plot started to be more interesting! I’m not sure if I am seeing this right but it felt like a book length prologue to the series 😄. I’m definitely curious where this is going now so I’ll definitely pick up the second book. I’d like to see a little more world building too. There are some characters introduced in the final chapters that s ...more

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Nov 11, 2022 M.H. Elrich rated it it was amazing

Shelves: christian-fantasy, christian-fantasy-favorites-2022, dragons

What if everything you knew was a lie?
Wes and his dragon friend, Celesyria, slowly begin to realize that the yearly sacrifices that are made are made to false gods. As they come to this realization, they realize that they have to make a choice: they can either stand up for this newfound truth or continue to perpetuate a lie. Of course, not everyone wants the truth, and the cost for standing up could be their lives.
This is a compelling Christian fantasy, and I enjoyed it immensely. The plot is ex What if everything you knew was a lie?
Wes and his dragon friend, Celesyria, slowly begin to realize that the yearly sacrifices that are made are made to false gods. As they come to this realization, they realize that they have to make a choice: they can either stand up for this newfound truth or continue to perpetuate a lie. Of course, not everyone wants the truth, and the cost for standing up could be their lives.
This is a compelling Christian fantasy, and I enjoyed it immensely. The plot is extremely fast-paced. Poor Wes experiences one bad thing after another, and the book doesn't pause that often from the action. The character development, especially for Wes, was compelling. Wes struggles with feeling like he is not good enough, and comparing himself to his family. His self-criticism was hard to read because I really liked Wes and wished I could've encouraged him. Celesyria didn't necessarily grow as a character because she stayed the same personality-wise, but she did learn how to have more faith.
The world-building was hard for me to understand at times because Lozinski drops names without much explanation and builds political systems without stopping to explain. However, her basic races (human, elves, dwarves, and dragons) did make it a bit easier to understand and she has a map at the beginning of the book that helps with discerning places. But I will say, even with that, I still had moments where I was like: who was that again? How do they relate to Wes? That being said, I still understood enough to enjoy the story, and I think fantasy readers would be able to keep up. Also, several betrayals and deaths made no emotional impact on me because they were not really build up enough for me to care (but I did care about poor Wes who had to suffer through them-so there's that).
Other than these two small complaints, this book is clean, without any sex, gore, or language. There also (currently) isn't any magic, so it is more of a kingdom adventure/historical fantasy book.
Overall, I highly recommend this book to fans of Christian fantasy! It is very, very good. ...more

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Feb 16, 2024 Crystan M. rated it really liked it

Shelves: on-my-kindle, faithandfantasy

A little slow to get started, but well worth hanging in to the end. Full of political intrigue, world building that serves the story, and main characters to care about. Stefanie Lozinski is able to weave her faith throughout this fantasy tale while making it both relevant to the characters and the reader. By the end of her novel, I was sorry to see I was on last page and close the book.

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