The Innocent Mage concluded

Asher is the reason I like The Innocent Mage. Asher is not your typical fantasy hero, there are no dreams of fame and renown, no wishes to be a knight or other hero. He wants to be what he was raised to be, a fisherman, he just wants his own boat to sail with his father and to break away from his brothers' business. Asher isn't even a reluctant hero, always saving people and being heroic but trying to deny it, claiming to be a bad man. Asher has no idea that he is everything to Jervale's Heir and The Circle. It's very refreshing to read a fantasy novel where the lead is neither a reluctant hero nor a typical knight of lore. If you like fantasy novels you will like The Innocent Mage, Asher and the rest of the cast of characters are realistic and fun to read. The plot does not twist and is fairly straightforward, but very entertaining. If The Innocent Mage is any evidence to the quality of Karen Miller's (a.k.a K. E. Mills) work, then she is a fine author indeed, and I think I'll be reading a lot more of her work.