imPerfect Magic

The series opener of a darkly funny, gritty urban fantasy saga narrated by an immortal heretic who's spent eight hundred years dying badly. French history, occult power games and a hero whose only reliable talent is coming back.After hundreds of years of dying, you d think I d be better at it by now One moment, I m a heretical priest in the twelfth century, hunted, hated, and on fire. Next, I m waking up in the nearest corpse, stuck in an endless cycle of instant reincarnation, popping back up like a tarnished penny.Fast-forward eight hundred years, and you d assume I ve learnt something useful.Spoiler: I haven t.Unless you count how to die often and dramatically as a transferable skill.Now, my territory in the South of France is under threat; I m trapped by some impossible angel-forged runes, and the celestial choir seems to have swapped their halos for red lightsabres. If they ve gone full dark side, reality itself might be next on the chopping block.I need to figure out who s