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Magic's Price

Mercedes Lackey

4.07 AVERAGE

earlgreyhhot's review

4.75
emotional hopeful sad

d2k's review

4.25
adventurous challenging emotional sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

inkfire's review

4.0

Some of the narrative decisions here seemed a bit too convenient and repetitive, but it was still entertaining overall. These books will remain as guilty pleasure reads on my shelf while Vanyel serves as my special snowflake self-pity self-insert.

No regrets.
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful mysterious reflective tense 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: Complicated

I HAVE CONSUMED THIS LAST BOOK IN LIGHTNING SPEED BC IT WAS SO TENSE
What a ride this trilogy was! I feel like so much has happened in this last book but it didn’t feel rushed or bulky at all in my opinion.
Despite the fact that Stefen was only introduced in this book, I feel like I have known him for much longer. I absolutely adore his relationship with Vanyel. They were so tender with each other (
with the exception of the bit where they were riding north in the snow storm ;-;
). The fact that they were both music nerds made me extremely happy. Although I feel like Vanyel had more chemistry with Tylendel, I still think his and Stefen’s interactions were really cute. I love the yearning and flirting all the way. I was
slightly disappointed with the reveal that Stef was actually Lendel’s reincarnation in a way, because I would rather it be that Vanyel was able to move on and start to pour his love into another completely different person, but all of the doubt and disappointment I felt in that reveal disappeared when I start seeing how the revenge rampage Vanyel went on perfectly mirrors the way Lendel has went about his in the first book.
It made it so much more delicious to read. Like a train crash scene, its end is predictable and absolutely tragic, but you can’t seem to look away. It really punches you in the gut too, the way the end came so rapidly.
There were a lot of casualties in this book, and it made sense, this is supposed to be an end of an era.
I will miss Savil deeply.

A fantastic end to a trilogy,
albeit with an ending not of the main couple living happily after until they die of old age
. But I really appreciate how the author tied up the story,
with the song that Stefen wrote after Vanyel’s heroic sacrifice
. It made me cry so hard.

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supermersh's review

5.0

This book totally redeems the series after the long-winded pity party that was Magic's Promise. I couldn't put this one down, it's easily the best Mercedes Lackey book I've read so far.
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nymeria1090's review

4.25
adventurous dark emotional sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
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rainbow_grace's review

3.0
adventurous challenging emotional fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Way too much crammed into way too few words.

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shu_long's review

5.0

Beautiful. Haunting. This moment, there are no other words for it within me.
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selenay936's review

4.0
adventurous emotional sad 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
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mary_soon_lee's review

4.0

This is the final book in Mercedes Lackey's fantasy trilogy "The Last Herald Mage." I found the first two volumes an almost-unbroken pleasure, this one slightly less so. I enjoyed it very much, but, although it did complete the arc of the trilogy, it felt a little rougher. There were several points where I felt as if an important scene had been skipped over, a scene that mattered to the main characters, a scene that I missed. Despite this, the story held me from start to finish, because I cared about the characters. I've cared deeply about Vanyel throughout the trilogy, and in this third volume, I was also very drawn to Stefen. There are other reasons to enjoy the trilogy, but it is primarily on the strength of my attachment to the characters that I highly recommend it.

SpoilerI note that I was offput by the age gap between Stefen and Vanyel. It didn't break the story for me, but it skated close to the edge. Curiously enough, I had a similar difficulty with Lynn Flewelling's Nightrunner books, which, like this trilogy, I mostly enjoyed immensely, thanks to the appeal of the characters.