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A Crucible of Souls

Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #1 / 3
by Mitchell Hogan
A Crucible of Souls (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #1) by Mitchell Hogan
★ 9.00 / 5
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When Caldan’s parents are brutally slain, he is raised by monks and taught the arcane mysteries of sorcery.

Vowing to discover for himself who his parents really were, and what led to their violent end, he is thrust into the unfamiliar chaos of city life. With nothing to his name but a pair of mysterious heirlooms and a handful of coins, he must prove his talent to earn an apprenticeship with a guild of sorcerers.

But he soon learns the world outside the monastery is a darker place than he ever imagined, and his treasured sorcery has disturbing depths.

As a shadowed evil manipulates the unwary and forbidden powers are unleashed, Caldan is plunged into an age-old conflict that brings the world to the edge of destruction...

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FantasyEpic FantasyHigh Fantasy
Release date: July 2013
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Mitchell Hogan

When he was eleven, Mitchell Hogan was given the Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings to read, and a love of fantasy novels was born. He spent the next ten years reading, rolling dice, and playing computer games, with some school and university thrown in. Along the way he accumulated numerous bookcases filled with fantasy and sci-fi novels and doesn’t look to stop anytime soon.

His first attempt at writing fantasy was an abysmal failure and abandoned after only one page. But ideas for characters and scenes continued to come to him and he kept detailed notes of his thoughts, on the off chance that one day he might have time to write a novel. For ten years he put off his dream of writing until he couldn’t stand it anymore. He knew he would regret not having tried to write the novel percolating inside his head for the rest of his life. Mitchell quit his job and lived off dwindling savings, and the support of his fiancé, until he finished the first draft of A Crucible of Souls.

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He now writes full time and is eternally grateful to the readers who took a chance on an unknown author.

A Crucible of Souls won the 2013 Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Novel.

Mitchell lives in Sydney, Australia, with his wife, Angela, and daughter, Isabelle.

Sorcery Ascendant Sequence

Sorcery Ascendant Sequence consists of three primary books, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.

A Crucible of Souls (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #1)
★ 9.00 / 5
Blood of Innocents (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #2)
★ 8.00 / 4
A Shattered Empire (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence #3)
★ 8.26 / 4
At the Sign of the Crow and Moon (Sorcery Ascendant Sequence)
Unrated

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12/22/2025
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Thorg SA
91 books, 18 reviews, 1 posts
★★★★★★★★★☆ 9 / 10

The whole book from the Characters to the story and the world was well thought out and delevoped. the interactions and battle scenes were epic whilst remaining believable 

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