The Last Magician
Ratings34
Average rating4
This was great! I knew nothing about it going in, and found myself instantly hooked on the writing style and story. A awesome magic time-traveling thief and it's a woman? Checked a lot of boxes for me. I also love books with like gangs of thieves so this hit quite a few buzzwords for me. And I personally loved this slow building trust and romance thing going on too. I will be planning to pick up the sequel shortly!
4,5 stars
Amazing writing and story! I really enjoyed reading about 1900's New York and all magic around the city. The story had a lot of plot twists, some of them predictable and some not so much.
Esta, a magician capable of bend time, travels to different locations and timelines to collect different magical artifacts for the Professor, the man that she always worked for, and who showed her her abilities. In the present, magical people are rarer and rarer, and Professor is focused also on saving those people, as he saved Esta.
Using an artifact that can amplify her ability, Esta is sent to 1902 with one goal - steal a magical book capable to rescue the magic from disappearing in present days. However, in the past, the book is protected by the Order and a group of magicians organized a heist to steal it. Although, during the heist, the book was stolen by a Magician who betrayed his group and disappeared with it provoking the disappearance of the magic. So, Esta needs to be careful and blend well in the group, help organize the heist, and she needs to con the Magician and return with the book to the present. As we all know, the plan will not go as planned!
I really liked the main characters, the only thing that annoyed me the most was the love line... I'm a sucker for good romance in fantasy books, but here it was too easy and a little bit superficial! One minute they hated each other, the next they were in love!
We have A LOT of main characters and the story was told from different perspectives, nevertheless, it wasn't hard to understand the plot, because it all blend really organically.
I recommend this book to people who like Cassandra Clare and S. j. Maas.
I AM NOT SORRY FOR PUTTING CAPS (I LITERALLY STOPPED WATCHING DEMON SLAYER FOR THIS WHICH I WATCHED 50 TIMES BUT THATS NOT THE FUCKING POINT)
WHY HAVENT I READ THIS WHEN I GOT INTO READING IN 2020 OMG THIS BOOK IS BEAUTIFUL STUNNING AMAZING!!!! IF I DIDNT HAVE THE AUDIOBOOK WITH ME I WOULDNT HAVE FINISHED IT TODAY AHHHHHHH!!!!
I THINK IM IN LOVE!!!
This one was a great book it's really interesting and intriguing and even at the end of the book leave so many things behind and so many doubts that actually encourage us to keep reading the series so I like it a lot it was a little hard to get into it at the start but after that a great book
Starting off, I generally don't like fantasy books, I love urban fantasy, but fantasy just doesn't get me. This sorta straddles the line. Its set in 1900 with some stuff in modern times.
I found the characters that the author chose to focus on were really fun and exciting and interesting. The rest I had trouble following.
I don't know what else to say. I enjoyed the whole experience, got lost a few times with all the characters, but it was an interesting story and felt different than normal. I might check out the next ones in the series, but it does feel like its going to be a long adventure.