This week’s new releases prove magic is nothing to mess with. Sure, it seems like using your ability to alter the world through music is a good idea—until you’re addicted to using it like a drug, or banished into exile for a quarter-century, or turned into an uncontrollable fiend. Be careful out there, kids.
For over a decade, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on The B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.