Advocatus

 

Advocatus tells the tale of Felix, a junior lawyer with one last case before he can strike out on his own.

His client? A terrifying magical warlord accused of, amongst other horrifying crimes, two counts of Attempted Genocide (and six counts of Theft). His plea? Innocent, of course! All in a day’s work for Felix.

Psychic frogs, downtrodden goblins, time-travelling wizards, and a whole host of other magical defendants become his caseload as Felix begins trying to make a name for himself as a successful lawyer in a world rife with sorcery.

The biggest case of his life: defending humanity in front of Habeus, the God of Justice himself. Lose, and it’s all over. Not just for him, but for the whole of mankind.

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Advocatus

Culpa Magnum, #1

A.R. Turner

17 January 2022

Fantasy

401 Pages

My Rating ~ 4 bites and a nibble

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Felix is a lawyer in a world of the mundane and the magical. Mostly magical. He has defended many cases that, to us, would be very strange, but is just all in a day’s work for him. After he represents a horrifying magical warlord named Bupp he is offered a job at Lunchers & Co.: Lawyers for the Underdog. It’s while he’s there that he gets the most important case of his career: defending humanity to Habeus, the God of Justice. Win and everyone lives. Lose and humanity is wiped out of existence. No pressure.

This is a unique story told in an unusual way. A tale about a defense lawyer who works in the magical world? Yeah, I’ve not run across one quite like this. The narrative bops back and forth between Felix’s journal entries of past cases and his current cases. It took a little getting used to, but I believe it works. I love the characters and I especially love Felix. The writing flows and the cases are supremely interesting. And entertaining. The big case, defending humanity, had me on the edge of my seat. There are some really terrible people in the world, but I believe there are more good people. In any case, Felix had quite the rock to roll up the hill in this one. Whew! If you’d like your fantasy told from a unique perspective then I highly recommend you pick this up.

Born on the Isle of Wight in the south of England, Alex now lives in South Wales with his wife and cat, where he divides his time between reading, writing and board games. Having always wanted to read a book about a lawyer in a fantasy world (but never successfully finding one), Alex finally realised that there was nothing else for it: he was going to have to write it himself. His other passion in life is a board game called Blood Bowl. He talks about it often in his podcast and one day hopes to compete in the Chaos Cup or other big global tournaments. Check his podcast here.

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