Wizard’s Sacrifice by A. M. Justice

This is a sequel to A Wizard’s Forge.   A interstellar ship is marooned at a planet with an indigenous population.   Later, the population has splintered living some who believe they descended from trees.  Due to an internal parasite, some people show wizard talents and this is illegal in many places.  Vic the protagonist in the first book suffers a bit of a demotion in this book.

Somehow I’ve got this feeling that these two books should be four.   Perhaps that is the direction the author plans.   The orbiting star craft seems like a loose end.   The devices origin is murky.  The mind of the trees is too unexplored.  Is it a collective mind, is it part of the indigenous species mind?  I ended up with more questions than answers. 

I think the characters were good but I just had issues with the overall plot. 

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