The school is quite challenging and life still proceeds to throw all sorts of chaos at our main character and his friends. SAM is very focused on the coming of age trope, and a lot of the book is set in a magical school. Corin tinkers and creates things to help him survive through the challenges, and hopefully find his brother. He’s very much a brains over brawn type of person, and it’s good to see a protagonist make his way through life’s challenges using strategy and problem-solving skills instead of just hitting his problems with a big sword (not that that isn’t also fun). The first person point of view is very well done in this book we follow Corin’s decisions as he solves puzzles throughout his life and the tower.Ĭorin is a pretty unique character. We get to see his motivations as he overcomes the challenges laid out for him. His one goal is to find his older brother who went missing on his own judgement years earlier. SAM is told from the point of view of Corin Cadence, a young man who’s entered the tower for an attunement.
They then proceed to learn how to use their attunement, typically joining the army or becoming a tower climber after they finish their schooling. Based on their performance and actions there, the characters get a magical attunement which dictates what sort of powers they’ll have. Magic is commonplace, and at a reasonably young age teenagers enter a magic tower as part of a judgement test. I wouldn’t knock it off the TBR pile due to the gaming elements, as everything is well explained and still understandable without any gaming experience. As much as I enjoyed this book, I suspect its audience is somewhat niche, and your mileage may vary depending on your tastes.
Characters have mana which is depleted when magic is used and increased as ‘levels’ are gained. Its magic system is very similar to that of a video game. Sufficiently Advanced Magic - Or SAM, for short - was an interesting book that appealed to me on a multitude of levels.
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