And Ian Merlin shocks the unseen world when he signs up as the House Prospero champion instead of fighting for his birth house, House Merlin. His best friend Grey, once the heir to the powerful House Prospero, is looking to start a house of his own. Laurent is not the only one looking to establish himself in the turning. But maybe he should ask some more questions of the mysterious magician. Laurent is blown away by her magic and signs her to be his champion straight away, certain of victory. Sydney is a powerful magician that no one has ever heard of. He searches for a champion and finds Sydney. In order to do this he must enter a champion into the turning and place high enough to earn the honor. Laurent is one of several young magicians looking to start his own house. Everyone is feeling off-centered because it has only been thirteen years since the last turning. These houses compete in the turning about every twenty years to decide the hierarchy of their society.įor the last one hundred years House Merlin has won the turning and ruled the magical community. The magical world is governed by Houses that are headed by powerful magicians. But now some big waves are moving through their world. They move through the mundane (non-magical) world without even a ripple.

New York is full of magicians in An Unkindness of Magicians (because everything happens in New York). Kat Howard has crafted a beautiful tale of right, wrong, power, and revenge in An Unkindness of Magicians. She has come to right some very old wrongs and woe to anyone who gets in her way. Anything can happen during a “turning” and a young, unknown magician, Sydney, is hoping to turn the magical world on its head during this one. But the wheel of fortune has begun to turn. Powerful families with a rigid caste system rule this unseen world. Side by side with the mundane world sits the world of magic.

An unkindness of magicians