Review: The Shattered City

The Shattered City by Lisa Maxwell
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Esta and Harte have been through a lot.  They have traveled through time and throughout the land to collect powerful artifacts that are needed to control the Book’s power.  They have lost even more … family, friends, and their hearts.  They are down to their last artifact.  Their hunt has brought them back to where everything started … New York City.  The city has changed, their friends have left, and time is not on their side.  Will they be able to save magic?  What will they be asked to sacrifice along the way?

The Shattered City is the fourth book in The Last Magician series.  This fantasy novel jumps around in time and characters, so readers will benefit from a pause between chapters to orient themselves with these changes.  I will admit that this volume was very long, but not many pages were wasted on unnecessary story elements; Maxwell just had a lot of ground to cover and it appears she didn’t want this split into two books.  The Shattered City was a good conclusion to the story, but the book itself was ho-hum.  

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