Lisa Maxwell Author Page

The Story: I don't really remember when I first found Lisa Maxwell as an author, I do know I got the 2 books in the Sweet Unrest series on NetGalley, and I saw The Last Magician in a few bookish spaces. But I did, and what I've read of her books has been great, and I can't wait to read more! 

Website

Series: Sweet Unrest, The Last Magician.

Sweet Unrest: Sweet Unrest and my review, Gathering Deep and my review.

The Last Magician: The Last Magician and her site, my review, The Devil's Thief and her site, my review, The Serpent's Curse and her site, my review, The Shattered City and her site, my reveiw.

Stand Alone's: Unhooked and my review. 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #737, July 21st

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #736
Teaser Tuesday #744
WWW Wednesday #744
WOW #740
Will the Time Come #737
Third Sentence Thursday #727
Random Reads #713
First Lines Friday #740
Book Blogger Hop #406

24 Books to Read in 2024 Update 10
The Reward Challenge Update #722
Wheel of TBR #269
How Well I Stuck to It #574
Wrote that Review Update #571

Week 29 Reviews:

Lore Olympus: Volume 8

Fury From the Tomb

Not Quite Dead Yet

Savage Lands

Spy×Family, Volume 14

Volatile Memory

Three Shattered Souls

The Last Magician 

Among Ghosts 

Cinders & Sapphires

Phase Out Your Seriesathon:

Update 49

Phase Out Your TBR: 

Update 7

Update 8

Update 9

Random:

Mai Corland Author Page

Sav R. Miller Author Page

Stacey Marie Brown Author Page

Tatsuya Endo Author Page

OK, so I got 32 posts in 7 days, it was a pretty quiet week, getting used to going back to my old schedule, which means getting up at 5 AM, but once I am, I'll definitely be reading more, since I'll be up more of the day. What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever I want! 

Week 29 Review: The Last Magician

From Goodreads:

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.

My Review:


Author: Lisa Maxwell
Series: The Last Magician #1  
Read: July 18th, 2025  
Source: Own
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a Historical Fiction 2025 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2025 Book!  
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: August 7th 2018

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

24 Books to Read in 2024 Update 10

So I read my next book for the 24 Books to Read in 2024 Challenge! 

So I read The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell from the Physical list!

Yep. Happy reading!

Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.

But to recap, I wanted to do a version of These Books Will Self Destruct in 12 months without the self destruct. I wanted to read books that I've had for a while, that I really needed to get read, but maybe I forgot about them or that I had them. So I made 2 lists, one for each way I have them, as physical books, and as ARC's, half from NetGalley, and half from Edelweiss.

Third Sentence Thursday #727, July 17th

Third Sentence Thursday is a weekly meme which likes to watch fireworks especially while eating a cookie!

1) Take the book you are currently reading and open it to a random page. Share the third full sentence on that page. (If there isn't a third one – like at the end of a chapter or a blank page – you can share the third sentence of the book or just choose another random page.) Feel free to share more than one sentence, if you feel the need to do so.

2) Review this sentence anyway you want (funny and silly reviews encouraged)

3) Post a link to your sentence at Words I Write Crazy (This Blog)

4) Visit one or two of the other blogs to check out their third sentences!

"Though they might have been criminals or cutthroats, those out after the lamps were lit were his people-the dispossessed and disavowed who lived in the shadows, carving out their meager lives at the edge of society." -The Last Magician by Lisa Maxwell, page 18.

That sounds lonley. Most read more now! What are your guy's 3rd lines? Link up below!