Hi everyone,
I recently finished The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell. I gave this book 3.8 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. You can see more about what this book is about here before heading in to my review. Make sure you go check out my May TBR, Quarantine Haul to see more books I'm reading.
Now hopping on in to the review this is as spoiler free. So first off lets start with how slow this book is. I was totally not expecting it to be as slow as it was. There definitely were some action parts but the rest is pretty slow. I think this is due to this being a first book and there are so many characters and world building between the two different time periods. I would say that more than half the book is really focused on characters. This book also does points of view a little weird since all our chapters have titles but not necessarily the character that were in. So that kinda of threw me a little for the writing, if you've been here awhile you would know I like a third person omniscient kind of view or at least character labeling. That being said I really liked Esta for our main character and Harte as the magician. They were a really excellent blend of characters and personalities. They played well off of each other. I also liked the feel of old New York and the gang boss aspect. It was definitely a lot of double crossing and who's working for who kind of thing going on. It add the the air of the who is really the bad guy and who can you trust atmosphere.
I also liked the magic and how thought out their system is, which types of magic different people have and how they practice magic. I think that made it pretty interesting. I just wish it would have been a little faster.
I definitely loved the end though the cliff hanger is great and the discovery's that Esta finds our about herself a really a good kicker. So I definitely glad I made it to the end and finished it.
Overall I would recommend this one to those who really want to invest in the story since I think there are two more books. I know I have the second one, The Devil's Thief, already and a third The Serpent's Curse coming later this year (Maybe). I would also recommended that you give this one a read when you have plenty of time and can really focus on the building of characters and the world. Which right now we all have a lot of time considerations the real world situation. I would say this was a prefect quarantine read since it's got a lot to it and is a pretty hefty book at 500 pages.
That's all for this book review. Thanks for reading, please don’t forget to like, comment, and follow for more of my posts.
I recently finished The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell. I gave this book 3.8 out of 5 stars on Goodreads. You can see more about what this book is about here before heading in to my review. Make sure you go check out my May TBR, Quarantine Haul to see more books I'm reading.
Now hopping on in to the review this is as spoiler free. So first off lets start with how slow this book is. I was totally not expecting it to be as slow as it was. There definitely were some action parts but the rest is pretty slow. I think this is due to this being a first book and there are so many characters and world building between the two different time periods. I would say that more than half the book is really focused on characters. This book also does points of view a little weird since all our chapters have titles but not necessarily the character that were in. So that kinda of threw me a little for the writing, if you've been here awhile you would know I like a third person omniscient kind of view or at least character labeling. That being said I really liked Esta for our main character and Harte as the magician. They were a really excellent blend of characters and personalities. They played well off of each other. I also liked the feel of old New York and the gang boss aspect. It was definitely a lot of double crossing and who's working for who kind of thing going on. It add the the air of the who is really the bad guy and who can you trust atmosphere.
I also liked the magic and how thought out their system is, which types of magic different people have and how they practice magic. I think that made it pretty interesting. I just wish it would have been a little faster.
I definitely loved the end though the cliff hanger is great and the discovery's that Esta finds our about herself a really a good kicker. So I definitely glad I made it to the end and finished it.
Overall I would recommend this one to those who really want to invest in the story since I think there are two more books. I know I have the second one, The Devil's Thief, already and a third The Serpent's Curse coming later this year (Maybe). I would also recommended that you give this one a read when you have plenty of time and can really focus on the building of characters and the world. Which right now we all have a lot of time considerations the real world situation. I would say this was a prefect quarantine read since it's got a lot to it and is a pretty hefty book at 500 pages.
That's all for this book review. Thanks for reading, please don’t forget to like, comment, and follow for more of my posts.
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