BibwitHart: Much Fall of Blood is the third book in the main sequence of the Heirs of Alexandria series. This is alternate history/fantasy where the great library at Alexandria was not burned down and all the books detailing how magic works and so on are still extant.
The first book is called Shadow of the Lion and is set in Venice. If you want to test-read it, try here:
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There are more books on the whole site. ;)
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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland