book review: the devil's thief // lisa maxwell
Series: The Last Magician - Book 2
Genre: Fantasy + Historical Fiction
Synopsis:
Hunt the Stones.
Beware the Thief.
Avenge the Past.
Esta’s parents were murdered. Her life was stolen. And everything she knew about magic was a lie. She thought the Book of Mysteries held the key to freeing the Mageus from the Order’s grasp, but the danger within its pages was greater than she ever imagined.
Now the Book’s furious power lives inside Harte. If he can’t control it, it will rip apart the world to get its revenge, and it will use Esta to do it.
To bind the power, Esta and Harte must track down four elemental stones scattered across the continent. But the world outside the city is like nothing they expected. There are Mageus beyond the Brink not willing to live in the shadows—and the Order isn’t alone in its mission to crush them.
In St. Louis, the extravagant World’s Fair hides the first stone, but an old enemy is out for revenge and a new enemy is emerging. And back in New York, Viola and Jianyu must defeat a traitor in a city on the verge of chaos.
As past and future collide, time is running out to rewrite history—even for a time-traveling thief.
❝true power was the ability to bend others to your will while they thought the bending was their own idea.❞
Review:
Review:
This is the second book in what is assumed to be a trilogy (the third book coming out at the end of this year), and it picks up from where we left off on the first book.
This was a massive book so of course I had some expectations about the kind of adventures our characters would have. Not to mention that I loved the first book as well hence this book had a bit of pressure to keep up. And turns out I didnt like it as much as I liked the first book. Personally, this book felt like a set up for the finale. The plot was interesting in the beginning, where Harte and Esta along with Jianyu were set out to find the artefacts that is scattered through out the country. We also have Viola facing her own difficulties.
The fact that this is a novel with multiple POVs and two different timelines, with no plot holes is amazing but, like I mentioned earlier, the book was long. The story started out strong but it began to drag in the middle. There was not much progression with the characters, the story kept jumping around from different points of views and the characters never seem to achieve any of their goals, nor did the plot move forward.
The romantic sub plot was interesting in the beginning as well, with this huge secret weighing Harte down which provided with a lot of angst. But after a while it got frustrating and the characters' actions felt stupid to me.
Basically the book started off strong and I really loved the writing, the pace, the descriptions but slowly the middle of it started to drag. The ending was also surprising and not something that I wanted to happen. I cannot wait till I get my hands on the final book (cant believe that I have to wait for like 7 to 8 more months 😭)
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