The Last Magician

Honestly, I went into this book with a pretty hopefully perspective: I’d been in a terrible reading slump the last two years, I couldn’t relate to any of the characters of any of the books I was reading, and everything I tried just seemed to lose my attention or just felt generic and overdone. But this— this book had it all for me. Esta was such a huge character that I finally found myself actually missing once I closed the pages. The plot is wholesome and utterly captivating, the characters are wide and diverse, and though I would like to see more growth from them in future books, I believe Maxwell gave just the right amount of material inside this first installment. All around 4.5 stars!