Agents of Artifice

On paper, I should have liked this. I mean, I like the idea of planeswalker cards in Magic, and I like the fact that Wizards is trying to make the lore aspect of things more front and centre to the game. I even liked some of the characters - Tezzeret is an interesting character, mafia boss as much as he is wizard, and I spent my youth listening to far too many Cure songs to not like someone like Liliana.

Still, I didn't like this. The protagonist, Jace, alternated between being unlikable and clueless, and really didn't do much of anything that was at all interesting over the course of the book. Add to that a setting that was presented fairly flatly and there isn't much to recommend to people with this book.