Rojan Dizon Novel Fade to Black, Book 1, (Paperback)

from PDCRead

Malhala. A vertical city, where buildings and streets are built on top of each other. People move between the area across bridges and walkways that shake when they are used. It is ruled by the Ministry, an all seeing, pervasive authoritarian government. The lowest of the city are the forsaken, wh...

from Carl_Alves

Fade to Black was a good but not great novel. It paints a good picture of a bleak, dystopian world. In a city where electricity and power comes in the form of magic provided by pain mages, who draw their power from physical hurt, either their own or that of others, the lowest of the low class liv...

from quiBee

This book was an average read. The world building was interesting. This is a dark, grim city where the people in the upper world don't know what's going on in the underworld and where pain is used as a source of magic. The hero is quite the antihero and hides the fact that he has some ability wit...

from renrav

Pain magic, world building, and a beautiful cover. The hero...yeah I was not a fan. I'm torn on whether to continue this series. Those are really pretty covers!

from kgodey

Rojan Dizon is a bounty hunter in the city-state of Mahala living a quiet life in the shadows and trying to stay out of trouble as much as possible. He's also a pain mage, and his magic has been outlawed by the Ministry that controls the city. His life is going great when his long-lost brother as...