The Last Magician
by Lisa Maxwell
500 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy
Book Description: In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives.
Esta is a talented thief, and she’s been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Esta’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.
But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.
It is a very good book, full of planning and people second guessing each other. We have a main female character named Esta who is trying her hardest to rescue not only the people she cares about but their future and the future of everyone like them. In parts it is annoying how she is very so unaware of the dangers she faces and takes risky decisions, but in the end the flaws are the things you like the most about them. I makes the characters more real.
During the development of the book, because you know that something's going to happen you keep trying to guess the big THING that happens that sends everything thumbling down. And just when you think you have everything figured out, we get a very nice plot twist towards the end of the book that you might or might not have seen coming or like me, you thought it was going to be something different. It keeps things pretty interesting.
I really liked it. I gave it a 4.5 - 5.0 Stars rating.
500 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction, Fantasy
Book Description: In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic—the Mageus—live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power—and often their lives.
Esta is a talented thief, and she’s been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Esta’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order—and the Brink—before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.
But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.
It is a very good book, full of planning and people second guessing each other. We have a main female character named Esta who is trying her hardest to rescue not only the people she cares about but their future and the future of everyone like them. In parts it is annoying how she is very so unaware of the dangers she faces and takes risky decisions, but in the end the flaws are the things you like the most about them. I makes the characters more real.
During the development of the book, because you know that something's going to happen you keep trying to guess the big THING that happens that sends everything thumbling down. And just when you think you have everything figured out, we get a very nice plot twist towards the end of the book that you might or might not have seen coming or like me, you thought it was going to be something different. It keeps things pretty interesting.
I really liked it. I gave it a 4.5 - 5.0 Stars rating.
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