Brad Abraham

So this is the book that got me out of my slump. Weird right? First off your introduced to Damon a Magician in a really cool scene that sucked me into the book right away. Of course, our main character is Jason which didn't suck, because Jason is actually a good character, but I really liked Damon and I wished there was more of him in the book. I loved the incorporation of our real magic, you know card tricks and the whatnot because it almost makes it seem like this could be happening.

While yes, the story for me was a bit linear and I knew what would happen before it did, it was a good story. Jason was a bit too good a magic for him to just have been introduced to magic. I sort of read it as one huge montage and while Jason was probably studying magic for far longer than I thought, Abrahams made it feel like it was too fast. One character that bothered me was Allegra. I wanted to like her so bad, I mean a powerful badass magician that is a female. Instead, I grew annoyed with her in almost every scene she was in.

I'm grateful to this book for helping me past my slump and I kinda hope this is a series rather than a one-off only because I felt like the story of Jason Bishop and magic isn't over.… (plus d'informations)

Oh dear. Well, I needed something to listen to, and this was available, so I listened to it. I'm trying to think of positive features, because it wasn't a terrible book. However, it had several aspects that I found deeply annoying, and many that were sadly mediocre, or at least, not to my taste. I think if you like the Grossman Magicians series, you might like this one. It's got a bit of a Da Vinci Code puzzle spy book thing going on, too, so there's that. Neither of those things appeal to me at all.

I found it to be full of flat, undeveloped, people fighting a nonsensical war. The main guy, Jason, is 30, but I haven't read a YA book in recent memory with a character so frozen in a 15 year old mindset. Plot holes upon plot holes, characters who never die (if they are magic) and pretty much all die (if they are human). Slow in plot, with a great deal of foreshadowing, so the reader knows what's going on and just has to wade through the time until the various players clue in.

There's a story about a farmer and a chessboard that's supposed to be the profound heart of the book. I must not be a magician, because I thought it was a lousy story that didn't really make any sense at all. However, if you want to really enjoy this book, take a drink every time someone grasps something. Here are some words not featured in the book: grab, grip, clutch, clasp, hold, clench, lay hold of, catch, seize, snatch, latch on to, grapple, get one's hands on. Plummeting seems to occur with astonishing frequency, but grasping? Wow, practically every other sentence.

The ending would seem to imply that it's a series.… (plus d'informations)

So this is the book that got me out of my slump. Weird right? First off your introduced to Damon a Magician in a really cool scene that sucked me into the book right away. Of course, our main character is Jason which didn't suck, because Jason is actually a good character, but I really liked Damon and I wished there was more of him in the book. I loved the incorporation of our real magic, you know card tricks and the whatnot because it almost makes it seem like this could be happening.

While yes, the story for me was a bit linear and I knew what would happen before it did, it was a good story. Jason was a bit too good a magic for him to just have been introduced to magic. I sort of read it as one huge montage and while Jason was probably studying magic for far longer than I thought, Abrahams made it feel like it was too fast. One character that bothered me was Allegra. I wanted to like her so bad, I mean a powerful badass magician that is a female. Instead, I grew annoyed with her in almost every scene she was in.

I'm grateful to this book for helping me past my slump and I kinda hope this is a series rather than a one-off only because I felt like the story of Jason Bishop and magic isn't over.… (plus d'informations)