Title: The Entanglement of Rival Wizards
Author: Sara Raasch
Series: Magic and Romance
Release Date: August 26, 2025
About this Book: Here
Source: Local bookstore.
Would I buy it as a gift for others? Absolutely. It’s so good.
My Thoughts:
Cause of my bruised heel? Me kicking my feet into the arm of the couch while reading.
I loved this book more than most words can say which is why it’s taken me days to figure out it out.
Sara Raasch creates characters I can’t help but immediately fall in love with, whether they are the central characters in the book or background characters who are amazing. This book, my third of hers, and the first in a new series is no exception to that rule. This book was partly inspired by Critical Role which just made me fall in love with it even more.
Sebastian is trying. He really is. There is trauma in his background, but he is trying to be better than he was before (even though there wasn’t as much wrong with him as he thinks there was). He is embroiled in magical academia, and going for the prestigious Magnus Research Grant in his school.
The problem? So is his nemesis.
Elethior aka Theo is trying to build a bigger legacy, a better legacy for himself than the one his family has established. And he both does and doesn’t understand why Sebastian might dislike him so, with the exception of some pranks that have gone back and forth between their two degree subjects.
There is a lot of drama, and trauma in this book, but there is a lot of clever dialogue, witty banter and friendships so deep that I could feel them in my core. It does cover C-PTSD and anxiety in a sensitive way, with what is clear research into the subject.
This book is a little darker than Nightmare and Luck, and I actually appreciate the change in tone, though I can understand why some might not actually like that. I loved it. It could’ve been weighed down by the darkness in the story or come off as cliched and trite but it did neither.
Orok, Sebastian’s best friend for life, and basically his brother in trauma and other things is also an amazing character. He is not without his own issues, and the trauma bond between him and Sebastian might as well have been welded in tungsten for how deep it is. I am so excited that he is the main character in the next book, which I’ve already preordered.
There is spice in this book, and it is cleverly done, without being too over the top.
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