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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.
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Release date
October 9, 2018 -
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OverDrive Read
- ISBN: 9781481494472
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- ISBN: 9781481494472
- File size: 6072 KB
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Languages
- English
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Levels
- ATOS Level: 6.4
- Lexile® Measure: 910
- Interest Level: 9-12(UG)
- Text Difficulty: 4-5
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August 1, 2018
The second book in The Last Magician series picks up right after the cliffhanger conclusion of the first volume.Time-traveling Esta and presumed-dead Harte, both Mageus, are on the run beyond the Brink in search of powerful magical artifacts in the primary storyline, which time-skips from 1902 to 1904. Back in New York, still in 1902, Viola and Jianyu, along with Cela, have their own secondary adventures; the three characters, respectively a white lesbian, a Chinese immigrant, and an African-American, also serve to illustrate some of Maxwell's (The Last Magician, 2017, etc.) thoughtful push back on racism, sexism, and xenophobia, even if they are somewhat centrally cast (especially Jianyu). Both narratives contain action and plenty of baddie Jack Grew (J.P. Morgan's fictional nephew, representative of toxic white male power), and magic continues to serve as an allegory; Esta and Harte's adventures in St. Louis at the (carefully researched) Exposition bring them into contact with magic activists-cum-terrorists, which furthers the ways Maxwell examines power and morality. Sadly, multiple perspectives and frequent jumps between two timelines, sometimes with single-page chapters, rob the narrative of flow and tension, making this doorstopper drag.In the end, this classic midseries entry seems mostly designed to set up the next volume, but fans probably won't mind. (map, author's note, further reading) (Historical fantasy. 12-adult)COPYRIGHT(2018) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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