The Serpent's Curse

By: Lisa Maxwell

Narrated by: Candace Thaxton

Leigh Bardugo’s Six of Crows meets Alexandra Bracken’s Passenger in this spellbinding third book in the “vivid and compelling” (BCCB), New York Times bestselling Last Magician series.

Evade the Serpent.
Heed the Curse.
Rewrite the Present.

Esta isn’t a stranger to high-stakes heists. She’s a seasoned thief who has no reservations about using her affinity for time to give her an edge, and she’s trained her whole life for one mission: travel back to 1902 New York, steal the ancient Book of Mysteries, and use its power to destroy the Brink and free the Mageus from the Order’s control.

But the Book held a danger that no one anticipated—Seshat, an angry goddess was trapped within its pages. Now that terrible power lives within Harte, and if given the chance, Seshat will use Esta to destroy the world and take her revenge.

Only Esta and Harte stand in her way.

Yet in their search to recover the elemental stones needed to bind Seshat’s power, Esta and Harte have found themselves stranded in time with a continent between them. As Esta fights to get back to Harte, the Order is no longer the only obstacle standing in her way.

Saving Harte—and magic itself—will put even Esta’s skills to the test. And all the while, another danger grows, one more terrible than both Seshat and the Order combined...

Brilliant and Masterful

Masterful story, perfect use of suspense between multiple indepth characters and honor/dishonor amongst friends/foes

Decent

The book was great, however she could have kept the specifics out of it. I understand there had to be politics and I understand that was a big part of the story. But she could have kept it more generic, to the point of where all you could do was guess who she was talking about. I like to read and enjoy the story, not try to figure out what her views are. Good book, she almost nailed it.

The too often unsuccessful search for endless artifacts.

Each book should have a better conclusion, not just a story leading to another book.

Had to stop

A voracious reader, this is the FIRST time I have stopped. The author grinds her characters under the heel of impossible odds over and over and over over… ad nauseam. I started skipping chapters. Finally stopped. What an agonizing read. Stop at book 2.

think you're getting and ending but you're not

the book was good, really slow for the first half and really fast for the second. You think the author is going to wrap it up with 6 hours to go, but alas it leaves you on a cliffhanger.