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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In Dan Tron’s Zerodopulos Saga opener, The Indigo Mage, John Sullivan is a centuries-old Indigo Mage training Karen Smith in the supernatural world hidden in ordinary life. On Karen’s first field day, John borrows her camera to record their assignments and show viewers how energy magic operates. Their cases bring them to clients troubled by beings most people cannot perceive, giving Karen her first chance to use months of lessons with her teacher. Yet John notices an unfamiliar energy around the cases that recalls a part of his past he had never explained to Karen. As he keeps teaching for the camera, the day points toward a larger disturbance in the magical world. What started as training leaves John facing signs he cannot dismiss, while his apprentice realizes her education is entering unfamiliar territory.
Dan Tron’s The Indigo Mage is an outstanding urban fantasy, with a magical world that feels expansive through imagination. Tron understands that character lives in behavior. You see it in John, Karen’s centuries-old teacher, whose kindness comes through when he eases her stomach with healing magic after a rough portal jump. Karen has that same pull as his fire-mage apprentice, patching John’s injuries at Lorin’s Diner after he refuses to heal himself. Tron’s world-building has impressive reach, placing magic inside ordinary life. That invention shows itself beautifully when John’s translation spell lets Karen understand Hungarian, and Shroboros Magic Shop takes the idea even further with an entrance that transforms into its hidden doorway. The scenery has a near-cinematic quality, moving from a city beneath perpetual crimson dusk to Aethereia, where eternal sunrise glows around a golden pyramid. Readers drawn to bickering mages discovering hidden worlds should pick up The Indigo Mage. Very highly recommended.
