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.