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The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell picks up where The Last Magician left off. Now that Esta has traveled back in time to save Harte, the two of them work together to find the scattered elemental stones. Can they find them before the Order does?

I really enjoyed this beast of a book! It was beautifully written, featuring rich world building and life-like characters. While the sheer amount of details made the plot drag at times, I still loved reading it!

The Devil’s Thief bounces back and forth between multiple character’s perspectives. There are a lot of characters in this book, and you get inside each of their heads! My favorite storyline to follow was probably Viola’s, especially once she meets Ruby. Viola is a fierce character with a rough family history. She’s tough–physically and emotionally–and has a strong moral compass guiding her actions. Her part in the book was interesting. In The Last Magician, you start to get to know Viola, but in The Devil’s Thief, you get to know her well. I really like her as a character!

Harte and Esta were also fun to watch in The Devil’s Thief. There’s so much tension between the two characters, but unfortunately, there’s a huge elephant sitting between the two of them that hinders most of their interactions. I’ll be curious to see how their relationship continues to develop.

The ending of The Devil’s Thief was great! Understanding what’s happening with the Book, Nibsy, and Harte is utterly fascinating. I can only imagine how this will all play out in the next book.

All of the characters in The Devil’s Thief were well-written. Lisa Maxwell knows how to write stunning characters! There are a lot of characters in this book, but they’re easy to keep straight because they’re so unique and individualized. I couldn’t ask for better character development.

If you haven’t read The Last Magician, I highly recommend you do so, that way you read The Devil’s Thief!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing the Kindle version of this book in exchange for an honest review.


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The Devil Thief The Last Magician Lisa Maxwell Books Reviews

The Devil's Thief is a wonderful 2nd book in the series. The writing is so rich and full, it sucks you in and takes you for a wild ride, just when you think you know what the next twist is..you don't! And is there anything better than romantic tension? NO! This book delivers on romance, action, characters, emotion, history, setting...everything. If you liked The Last Magician you will LOVE The Devil's Thief.
The Last Magician and The Devil's Thief are excellent books! Time travel and magic! The relationship between characters are perfectly honest. In the first book, it took a few chapters before I really fell in love. I wasn't sure if I would be able to get into it at all, actually. But then once the stories began to blend and mix, it became exciting and i couldn't put it down. I have to pace myself with The Devil's Thief so as to not finish it so quickly. I want to be able to enjoy this book as long as I can, and self control has been tough!
I would have given this 5 stars except when I read The Last Magician I was under the impression that Book 2 would end it. Instead, it expanded the tale ten fold. So many twists. So many new characters and sub plots. And of course it ended with a total cliff hanger.
Now, let's get this straight. I really liked this book a lot. I agree with another reader that Viola and Jianyu's story line was the most interesting. Maybe because we knew so little about them in Book 1. I hate Jack Grew and Nibsy Lorcan. Each time they appear in the narrative I want someone to do them in. This is a sign of good writing I am totally immersed in the story emotionally. I also don't like Mother Ruth and didn't from the start...again, I don't think we, the reader, are supposed to. Maggie and North are an interesting addition as well. This book caused me so much anxiety. Every time the plans of the characters went awry, and they did a lot, I had to put it down for a bit to calm myself.

And now i have to wait for the third installment. I'm not happy about that. I want to know how this all concludes, NOW. oh well. Please Lisa Maxwell, write book 3 quickly so I can spend my hard earned money on it and ease my anxiety.
This is a marvelous book, richly imagined, skillfully plotted, and densely peopled with both real and imaginary figures from a variety of historical times and places. It's fantasy, of course, but that fantasy has an ugly aura of truth in the oppression of magical people (Mageus) by the wealthy and powerful in Maxwell's fictional world. The connection is all too clear to today's politics, whereby the uber-rich consolidate their power by stirring up fears of an "invasion" of dark-skinned, dangerous people from abroad. Maxwell makes this world seem terribly real--because it is terribly real. There's no in-your-face politics, just a compelling fictional narrative that uncannily echoes our own times.

I did find the book a bit long, particularly in the scenes involving the romantic leads. It felt to me as if Maxwell was manufacturing a reason to keep the two from consummating their physical attraction to each other Harte has somehow taken the power of the Ars Arcana (the book of magic) into his body, and that power somehow endangers Esta's power or her life or the life of everyone on earth, or something like that. At points, I wanted to say, "for heaven's sake, you two, why don't you just sleep with each other?" I was far more interested in what was going on around Harte and Esta--the attacks on Mageus, the counterattacks by the magical group calling themselves the Antistasi, the drama of the St. Louis world's fair, the shifting through time--than I was in the love story. That's not really a weakness of the book, but I felt as if Maxwell was satisfying a trope (the on-again, off-again relationship one so often finds in YA novels) just to make the book feel more YA, when in fact it's an adult historical fantasy in every other respect.
The Devil’s Thief by Lisa Maxwell picks up where The Last Magician left off. Now that Esta has traveled back in time to save Harte, the two of them work together to find the scattered elemental stones. Can they find them before the Order does?

I really enjoyed this beast of a book! It was beautifully written, featuring rich world building and life-like characters. While the sheer amount of details made the plot drag at times, I still loved reading it!

The Devil’s Thief bounces back and forth between multiple character’s perspectives. There are a lot of characters in this book, and you get inside each of their heads! My favorite storyline to follow was probably Viola’s, especially once she meets Ruby. Viola is a fierce character with a rough family history. She’s tough–physically and emotionally–and has a strong moral compass guiding her actions. Her part in the book was interesting. In The Last Magician, you start to get to know Viola, but in The Devil’s Thief, you get to know her well. I really like her as a character!

Harte and Esta were also fun to watch in The Devil’s Thief. There’s so much tension between the two characters, but unfortunately, there’s a huge elephant sitting between the two of them that hinders most of their interactions. I’ll be curious to see how their relationship continues to develop.

The ending of The Devil’s Thief was great! Understanding what’s happening with the Book, Nibsy, and Harte is utterly fascinating. I can only imagine how this will all play out in the next book.

All of the characters in The Devil’s Thief were well-written. Lisa Maxwell knows how to write stunning characters! There are a lot of characters in this book, but they’re easy to keep straight because they’re so unique and individualized. I couldn’t ask for better character development.

If you haven’t read The Last Magician, I highly recommend you do so, that way you read The Devil’s Thief!

Thank you to NetGalley for providing the version of this book in exchange for an honest review.