Magic for Liars

paperback, 352 pages

Published May 5, 2020 by Tor Trade.

ISBN:
978-1-250-17462-8
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OCLC Number:
1114340025

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(54 reviews)

Everyone has a secret...

MURDER MYSTERY MADNESS MAGIC

What are you hiding?

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Review of 'Magic for Liars' on 'Goodreads'

Magic for Liars is a reaction to the Harry Potter, school for gifted children trope.

There is an aristocratic elite born with a talent for Magic and there are the Muggles. There is a chosen one prophecy.

The story concentrates on the struggle of two sets of siblings. The point of view character, a Muggle twin of a tenured professor at magic school. and two students growing up in the shadow of the chosen one prophecy.

The audiobook narration by xe Sands is especially appropriate as she is great at doing melancholy. She is a good choice for Sarah Gailey's books.

Review of 'Magic for Liars' on 'Goodreads'

The premise sounds great: non-magical private investigator hired to investigate a murder in a Hogwarts-ish school of magic. Ivy Gamble, PI, sister to the very talented magic teacher Tabitha Gamble, is brought in when the "official" investigation of the murder declares it to be a self-inflicted accident. The rest of the book follows Ivy's efforts to solve a magical murder in a magic high school without knowing the first thing about magic herself.

This sounds like it could be an intriguing book and indeed it could have been. It almost was, it's still fairly readable, but Ivy makes so many ridiculous and inexplicable decisions, and suddenly knows about magic at exactly the critical times despite supposedly knowing nothing about it the rest of the time, that I was half expecting her to be revealed to have been a suppressed magic prodigy all these years. But no, it just doesn't make …

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