Quest Critics FROM the END of REALITY: Book One Duology

Saving the world sounds heroic until someone makes you fill out the paperwork. Jax Varn and Luma Vale are junior field critics for the Review Guild, an interdimensional bureaucracy that sends underpaid agents into broken fantasy worlds, rates their performance, and charges them penalties when the quest goes off script. Jax has a sword, poor impulse control, and a dangerous habit of asking the obvious question too loudly. Luma has a map that sees the shape of things people are trying to hide. Their senior consultant is Sir Spoil, a tiny cursed bronze helmet with the patience of a tax auditor and the emotional warmth of a stapler. Together, Unit Seven is sent into worlds where moons go on strike, dragons may not be the monsters, horror villages obey terrifying soup rules, and ancient traditions turn out to be old mistakes with better statues. The Guild wants clean repairs. Simple answers. Proper heroes. Approved monsters. Jax and Luma keep finding people where the paperwork says there should only be background scenery. The more they help, the more trouble they cause. The ratings get worse. The penalties get sharper. And somewhere under the polished halls of the Review Guild, something old begins to notice that Unit Seven is asking the wrong kinds of questions. Quest Critics from the End of Reality is a funny, strange, heartfelt fantasy adventure about broken systems, dangerous stories, impossible jobs, and the terrible financial consequences of doing the right thing. For readers who like magical bureaucracy, found-family adventure, genre satire, living worlds, cursed objects with opinions, and jokes that start funny before quietly becoming a problem.