/lit/ - Literature

Anyone else read/reading the Powder Mage trilogy? Just about finished the first book and I've enjoyed it quite a bit, particularly the magic system. Its not super complex but its nicely varied.

Thus far there have been the powder mages (most of the main characters are such), which are similar to Mistborns allomancers but in place of metals, they snort gunpowder. Can do things like ignite gunpowder, redirect the energy from said ignition and curve bullets/give them more oomph and they also get an increase to their physical attributes like sight and strength.

Then there's the privileged which are basically like your traditional mage. They can also give up these powers to become a magebreaker, which is being able to nullify a privileged's magic (not sure if it applies to powder mages too).

And finally they have the knacked, which are people born with random, single abilities like a perfect memory or being able to go without sleep.

The ending may well be shit but I reckon I'll be reading the second book.