When Riveted Lit revealed the cover for The Last Magician, I swooned a bit. Clearly this is a book that needs to be on display. The twining serpent-creatures, in particular, caught my attention. It definitely looks like the ouroboros symbol with the serpents consuming their own tales.
I’m really excited to see how this one appears in print, if they choose to do a glossy and/or embossed jacket, or matte. It’d be so cool if they gave the serpents a texture much like the dust jackets for the Talon series by Julie Kagawa since the design is so intricate.
What do you think of the cover? Are you drooling too? Or not impressed?
Published on April 25, 2017 by
Simon Pulse Genre(s): Fantasy,
Young Adult Pages: 512
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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.
Tessa 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, Tessa can pilfer from the past, collecting these artifacts before the Order even realizes she’s there. And all of Tessa’s training has been for one final job: traveling back to 1901 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 Tessa to save her future, she may have to betray everyone in the past.
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