Glass Kanin by Kia Leep

As a rising actor, Kanin’s body is his career. His identity. His life. All that is taken from him when he dies and is reborn as a bottle of ink.

Now living as the heart of a magical glass servant, Kanin’s new purpose is to perform a senile wizard’s yard work—a role this world’s magic system seems intent on enforcing. That might have been manageable if a murderous shadow monster wasn’t hunting his very soul.

But he’s not alone. Teaming up with an elf whose soul has likewise been trapped in a toy octopus, they recruit help from a devilishly handsome rogue and set off on a journey to break the spell that’s trapped them in this state.

A wizard owns his body. The magic system has determined his fate. A shadow monster wants to control his mind. But as long as Kanin’s soul remains his own, he’ll fight to win back his autonomy—or die trying.

Again.

Category: Fantasy – Sword & Sorcery

After helping to get his friend’s soul back into her original body, Kanin is more than ready to do the same for himself. The problem is he left his body with a broken neck back on Earth.

With each day that passes, the shadowy monster that’s tied to Kanin soul creeps further into reality, threatening to overpower his mind for good. Luckily, the way to permanently extract it might also be the solution to Kanin getting home. Except both these things can only be reached in an ancient ruin at the bottom of the sea.

The Glass Kanin Saga continues with Book 2: Loose Kanin, as our fragile hero upgrades his glass body, dabbles in eldritch magic, and plunges beneath the waves in an aquatic misadventure.