Booklog 101/2024: Benedict Jacka: An Instruction in Shadow - An Inheritance of Magic #2

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Narrated by Will Watt.

This picks up directly after An Inheritance of Magic ends, and by this time I've become accustomed to the word 'sigl' (pronounced to rhyme with giggle. See my review of book 1 in this series, An Inheritance of Magic.) Stephen Oakwood is growing into his magic, though still learning. He’s still wary of his family, the Ashfords but when he loses his well-seeking job, thanks to a loud-mouthed friend – he ends up taking a job with the heir of the Ashford family who seems to be cut from a different cloth from the other Ashford siblings, but he’s being courted by a dangerous representative of a magical cult, who is teasing him with possible news of his missing father. He manages to negotiate his way around a potential rival and his murderous brother, but at the end of the book he’s still not found his father, so there’s obviously another book to come. Sadly this means that there’s a semi-cliffhanger with parts of the story resolved, but the greater part not. I think I’ve mentioned before how much I hate unresolved endings. Not sure when the next book in the series is out. The narrator is good, differentiating well between the voices.