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Magic Lessons

Alice Hoffman

4.15 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

sezinserficeli's review

4.25
dark emotional informative medium-paced
adventurous dark emotional hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark inspiring sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
emotional mysterious sad medium-paced
adventurous emotional medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
emotional mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Thanking the readers who urged Alice Hoffman to write a prequel to the Practical Magic series because Magic Lessons is the most beautiful novel I’ve read this year (I’m still weeping). Thus, this composition may well have been wrought in ✨pure gold✨ for such is the essence that Alice Hoffman imbues upon each of her books. LOVE.

“This is how you begin in this world. These are the lessons to be learned. Drink chamomile tea to calm the spirit. Feed a cold and starve a fever. Read as many books as you can. Always choose courage. Never watch another woman burn. Know that love is the only answer.”

It’s not even on Goodreads yet but I’m already excited for the 4th installment — namely, The Book of Magic!
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I'm torn! This was fine, but it was good! I enjoyed it, but not nearly as much as Practical Magic, which utterly charmed me. This one definitely swept me up and I was moved at times, but I think it was also just a lot sadder than the first one. Also,
if you have a familiar, why on earth would you not heed their advice? Justice for Cadin and Keeper, amirite?

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