J. A. Areces continues his fantasy saga today with The Sorcerer’s Secret:
Book 3 of the Salem Concord begins where The Secret Society of Seven Sorcerers left off. In the Sorcerer’s Secret, Jesse ventures deeper into the wizarding world and discovers that the Wizardry must live a secret. A secret that history altered. A secret that FOLK must never learn. It’s up to Jesse and the secret wizard agent Ch-U-Ch to stop the forces that are trying to breach the Salem Concord and cause another Witch War. Meanwhile, Andrew and Brendan are learning that being a wizard in a FOLK world has its consequences. As their secret is revealed, they learn that they’re placing their friends lives in danger. It’s up to them and Chief Fabiano to stop Lord Alex from obtaining two of the most powerful magical items in the world. Time is running out, and on Halloween, one cry will be heard throughout the land, “The Witches are Coming!”
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October 31st, 2009 at 2:47 pm
J.A. – I forgot to expect the novel to start today (October 31), can you believe it? It was a wonderful surprise! It’s great to have you back, and the story is better than ever.
I forget – did we already know that Alavance Wizards and Witches Corner Store (gulp) was not on a corner? I can’t remember that it ever came up. (Wonder if that fact has significance???)
October 31st, 2009 at 8:21 pm
Hi Gail, I’m glad your back listening! Happy Halloween! Yes, Alivan’s Wizards and Witches Corner Store is not located on a corner, which in the first book, Interview for a Wizard, Jesse found odd. No, it’s not a significant fact, just one of those weird things that the Wizarding like to do to confuse FOLK. Thanks for asking. I hope you enjoy The Sorcerer’s Secret. Please stay in touch.
November 1st, 2009 at 8:28 pm
Hi, When will the sorcerers secret be in itunes to download? Steven
November 1st, 2009 at 8:45 pm
JA, okay, I have now confirmed my status as FOLK.
Alivan’s Wizards and Witches Corner Store is NOT on a corner. (It is probably still a drinking game, though.)
I’m sure it’s the least odd thing about the store.
November 2nd, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Hi Steven,
The Sorcerer’s Secret is also available in iTunes. You can also download in podiobooks.com. I hope you enjoy it. Let me know what you think and thanks for listening.
November 27th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
the story is good so far can’t wait for the rest of the story
December 29th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Chapters 15 and 16 are some of your best writing yet! Thanks for these Christmas episodes, they have been much enjoyed.
August 19th, 2010 at 10:50 am
I’ve just listened to episode 45, chapter 40, and I’m very excited to see all the details and portents that were laid down in earlier chapters coming together for the story’s climax.
Mr. Areces, your storytelling is consistently improving, and is becoming more entertaining all the time. It is evident to me that your hard work is paying off! Thank you for sharing.
August 19th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Mary Laura, thank you so much for you support and kind words. You have made my day. To be honest, not more than 20 min ago I told my wife I was thinking of stopping the recordings b/c it is a lot of hard work. And even though the numbers are great, I needed to hear from someone that they were enjoying it. You were that someone for me today. I appreciate this very much. So, tomorrow I’ll wake up at 5am to record some more, and Mary Laura, tomorrow morning, chapter 44 is dedicated to you.
September 25th, 2010 at 2:00 pm
I have enjoyed each of your books and hope that you have plans to write more in the future. I will be sad when this one is complete as I have looked forward to each episode as if I was one of the kids.
September 28th, 2010 at 2:44 am
I love your books. I have listened to everyone you have here at podiobooks. My only problem is that when there is no new episode I always check in to see if a new episode may have been released and I have missed. When they are released, dinner, husband and children have to wait until I am ready listening too it.
Thanks for an exciting story where I feel close to the characters.
October 8th, 2010 at 10:40 pm
Keep up the great writing. So nice to have an interesting story line with characters you can really ‘get to know’. Thanks for a tale that us adults (men and women) enjoy but still the older kids can listen in on us to become the future listeners for you great writers! You are appreciated and we are proud to help support you (even though it isn’t much).
October 15th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
Hope there will more in the future from you. All three books are great and the character development has been fun to follow from each book to the next. Thanks!!!
October 31st, 2010 at 7:02 pm
I’ve really been enjoying the series. I just finished The Sorcerer’s Secret. It was very very very long. It was enjoyable, but I’d almost say it could have done with some serious trimming to speed things up and stay focused. Just my two cents.
I’ll be looking forward to the next book in the series.
November 30th, 2010 at 11:29 am
It is hard to say anything bad about this book. It was so evident the whole way through, that the author has put a lot of time and hard work into it.
Pros: great story, a lot of creativity, originality, superb characters.
Cons: grammar, conjugation, tense; pronunciation; someone please edit this! A lot of cringe worthy English errors took away from the enjoyability of the story. Narration… i know you tried and should be proud, but get another narrator. I often couldn’t tell if the error was in the wrong words being written, or just narration errors.
—Too much repetition. There is no reason for this to be 55 chapters and not even come to a conclusive ending. i don’t want to hear the whole process for focusing one….more….time.
All in all, definitely worth the listen. But i do believe it will be much better if cleaned up.
November 30th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Had a hard time rating the Writing. 5 stars for creativity and originality and development. 2 stars if you’re talking about english composition. I agree with comments on horrible grammar and way too much repetition, but it was also hard to tell if this was a problem with the writing, or the narrating. It seemed the ability to speak english degraded as the story droned on. Great content, but definitely get a good editor.
April 25th, 2011 at 5:57 am
I am a fan of the series looking forward to the nest installment. However, the criticism concerning production is valid. The grammar and reading style have an adverse effect to the enjoyment of these books. I do, however, recommend the series, good story line and fun & interesting characters.
May 7th, 2011 at 10:22 am
Someone please find me an editor!
On a good note, I just finished the fourth and finale book, The Last Sorcerer. I plan to start recording and editing the episodes this June and hope to release it, as usual, in October.
June 6th, 2012 at 5:22 pm
I enjoyed the story thus far, though I have to say that my suspension of disbelief was disrupted whenever JA would talk about law enforcement, due process or even forensic investigation(or lack there of). I understand that he wrote things in such a way as to move the plot along but a lot of stuff sounded more like how law works in the Dirty Harry movies rather than in real life. I don’t want to give anything away but something happens to one of the characters that is a direct violation of the 4th amendment to the Bill of Rights. Every time this things would come up I felt forcibly ejected from enjoying the story.
Also, I got the feeling the several of the main characters just aren’t that bright. It felt like they hadn’t read the previous chapter or two (involving events that they had taken part in of course).
I agree w/ a few others that whenever things would get repeated in their entirety I would groan inwardly and wish that I could fast forward beyond that point to get back to the story.
I know it doesn’t sound like it but I did like the book and look forward to hearing the next one.
One thing to note.. in the intros JA refers to this as “Book 3 of the Salem Concord” but he never referred to the previous books as being part of a series of this title. I wondered if Book 1 and 2 might have been involving other characters and events that then crossed into this series, but now I don’t think this is the case. The intros and outros were also much louder than the content and I was constantly having to fiddle w/ the volume while driving and listening to this book.
I’m sure this is not JA’s fault, but 5 or 6 of the episodes would restart at the beginning about 10 minutes in and then end (presumably) 10 minutes early; often mid sentence.