Books like Prophecy

What an odd book. Though it gets off to an awkward start, it does hit its stride after three or four chapters … but is it Magic? Consider the setting, on one hand we have the Keldons, medieval barbarians with catapults who use very little magic. On the other, we have city states backed by a planeswalker flying blimps and aircraft that drop bombs and shoot rockets. And these are called bombs, blimps, and rockets by the way, not magic missiles or spellbombs. Now guess which force is struggling. Surprise, it’s the guys with the World War I tech and the most powerful wizards. Oh, did I mention they have robots too?Perhaps that’s what ultimately doomed the book for me … this book's Dominaria is amazingly low magic and correspondingly low Magic the Gathering. Mechanized vehicles, giant robotic insects, blimps, bombs, and rockets … it all became too sci-fi for a Magic setting. While it’s true, most Magic the Gathering tie-in novels aren’t amazing reads, they do at least tie-in with Magic the Gathering. This novel couples an unengaging storyline and characters we barely care about, with a low-magic world that’s alien to fans of Dominaria. The result, for the lack of a better metaphor, is a bomb.