There is definitely a lot of room left for character development, and I hope to see it tackled in future novels.Īffirmation and illusion, bound up tighter than two snakes in the same egg. Her attempts, sometimes futile, at trying to find her way through a largely alien world are often either endearing or comical, often revealing something more about the setting along the way.
Because she is, like us, an outsider of this world, it becomes fairly easy to enter her shoes and relate to the ways in which she experiences the world. Ivy Gamble is an all-around charming and likeable protagonist I would definitely like to see more of, especially her increasingly-jaded attitude towards the extraordinary. This alone presented a large amount of potential in my mind for curious explorations and interactions… and I am quite glad to say they were met, if not exceeded in Magic for Liars. I will say from the very start I was intrigued by the premise on a surface level: putting a detective without magical powers to work in a magical environment. Reluctantly enough, Ivy agrees to enter a world of magic she was rejected from before her life ever really began, even if it means she has to confront her sister once more.īetween magical high-schoolers, teachers with their own agendas, general evil-doers and the murderer himself, Ivy has her work cut out for her, forced to navigate an alien world for what will ultimately be yet another paycheck. Resolved to attract the least amount of attention to themselves, the academy employs the services of Ivy to track down the murderer and hopefully preserve everyone’s reputation. Perhaps fortunately, their lives are about to meet on a collision course as a gruesome murder takes place at the Osthorne Academy for Young Mages where Tabitha teaches. She is estranged from her twin sister, Tabitha, for one small reason: contrary to Ivy, Tabitha was born magical, ending up working at an academy for mages. The story begins by presenting us with Ivy Gamble, a private investigator who makes ends meet by spying on cheaters for their spouses.
Today we’re going to look at a book very much part of this thematic movement, Sarah Gailey‘s Magic for Liars. Many authors have shared their personal depictions of magical worlds, in and recent years I have the impression a tendency has arisen to make it more grounded, down-to-Earth, and essentially mixed with reality. Nevertheless, we have hardly stopped dreaming about magic, and the innumerable possibilities it would gift us with in some alternate timeline where it was indeed possible. Whereas before it may have been viewed as an integral part of daily life, today the majority of us consider it to be nothing but make-belief.
The idea of magic has largely gone from widely-accepted fact to pure fiction over the course of humanity’s history.
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