Book Spotlight: The Bridge to Magic by Alex Thornbury
Good morning friends, and welcome to a new book spotlight! Today we shine the spotlight on a book that is out on this new book Tuesday! It’s a story that is new to me, but now on my radar, and one that I’m so eager to dive into. I love a good Fantasy story, and this one looks like a winner. Join me as we check it out!
2022 Royal Dragonfly Award Winner for Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Blight. The end of Mankind. The Bridge that may be salvation or the final betrayal.
Magic is treacherous, it lied to them all…
In this grimdark fantasy, magic and its guardians have been banished to the Deadlands and the Blight threatens mankind’s survival. Terren, the last remaining city, stands alone against its relentless advance. Ever closer draws the choice they all must make: face the deadly Blight or cross the Bridge to Magic.
Elika, an orphan on Terren’s streets, hates and fears the dark bridge. Many who try to cross, perish. Some reach the other side, only to become motionless shadows in the vast, lifeless landscape of the Deadlands, their true fate unknown.Like everyone else, Elika clings to the hope that purging every lingering echo of magic from the world can stop the Blight.
Then she discovers that magic is hiding within her, and through her it seeks to enact the will of its own. Everything Elika knew about her past shatters, as long-buried secrets about her true birth emerge. Accused of being a mage, many doubt her loyalties. Her gang turns against her. The one man she thought she could trust and love, abandons her.
Hunted and alone, Elika must soon decide: Either destroy the magic inside her or cross the bridge to her own uncertain end. But what awaits them in the Deadlands where the enemy of mankind roams wild?
The Bridge to Magic is a dark and intriguing story of a life between two deaths and an impossible choice to make. It is a tale of hope and survival in a world where neither seems possible.
One of my favorite things about Fantasy stories is those impossible choices that characters must make, and watching them weigh the options over and over again. It’s heartening to see that, despite all the mess that might exist, there’s always a way forward. I also absolutely LOVE stories that are billed as grimdark fantasy. Give me the grit, the dust, and the backstabbing. It makes my Fantasy loving heart sing. So needless to say, I’m pretty dang excited about this book.
Will you be adding it to your reading list as well?
Alex Thornbury is an award-winning author. She grew up in Cheshire UK, and developed deep love of history and fantasy thanks to the many castles she visited as a child. Though she grew up to be an Alchemist by trade, she never stopped fantasising about other worlds, dragons and epic battles.
She has abandoned her Alchemy and potion making career, and is now a full time author of high fantasy.
Her debut fantasy novel, The Bridge to Magic, won the 2022 Royal Dragonfly Book Award.
