The Last Magician

By Lisa Maxwell and Lisa Maxwell

Book Overview

An instant New York Times bestseller

"Will keep you guessing until the last page." --Cinda Williams Chima, New York Times bestselling author

A girl travels back in time to find a mysterious book that could save her future in Lisa Maxwell's "splendid series opener" (Kirkus Reviews).

Stop the Magician.
Steal the book.
Save the future.

In modern-day New York, magic is all but extinct. The remaining few who have an affinity for magic--the Mageus--live in the shadows, hiding who they are. Any Mageus who enters Manhattan becomes trapped by the Brink, a dark energy barrier that confines them to the island. Crossing it means losing their power--and often their lives.

Esta is a talented thief, and she's been raised to steal magical artifacts from the sinister Order that created the Brink. With her innate ability to manipulate time, Esta can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she's there. And all of Esta's training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1902 to steal an ancient book containing the secrets of the Order--and the Brink--before the Magician can destroy it and doom the Mageus to a hopeless future.

But Old New York is a dangerous world ruled by ruthless gangs and secret societies, a world where the very air crackles with magic. Nothing is as it seems, including the Magician himself. And for Esta to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1481432087
• ISBN13: 9781481432085
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 14 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 9 to 12

Customer Reviews

One of the best books I’ve read this year.

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!