I wanted to hate it after the first few minutes and pick on it for being a rip off, the narrator even sort of sounds like James Marsters as Spike, but the story is well written and it drew me in. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, both Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne should be very flattered. He's a mage who is hard but with a soft-ish heart. He's also friends with an air elemental- think Toot Toot or Oberon. Verus owns and operates a magic shop, ran away from his evil mentor at a young age, is shunned by most other magical practitioners and by the end of the book has a young, female apprentice. Jacka even writes in a cheeky reference to Harry Dresden. In the first few minutes of the book, it's hard not to compare Alex Verus to Dresden and to Atticus O'Sullivan. With all of the comparisons to Jim Butcher and Kevin Hearne I thought I'd give it a try.
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