A review by whimsicallymeghan
Found by Sarah Prineas

2.0

The third novel in the Magic Thief series. Conn is still on the hunt to find his locus magicalicus, a stone that lets him do magic as a wizard. This takes Conn away from Wellmet where he exiled for breaking rules. He also has to get rid of this evil magic called Arhionvar that is going to take over Wellmet. Conn finds his locus magicalicus, but a dragon swallows it, so Pip becomes his stone. While trying to defeat the dark magic, he uses himself, which causes him to forget who he is. The novel had quite a few plotlines going to keep the reader going throughout the novel. Although Conn is almost hanged, which seems kind of tasteless for a children’s novel, why would you add that in? It’s fine that they wanted to kill him, but it went too far when he was very close to being hanged. There was also a drawing of noose too. As for characters, they all go through a lot this novel. It’s mostly focused on Conn, but Rowan is loosing her mother, Nevery actually cares for Conn’s welfare, characters are definitely growing. Overall, this novel wasn’t the best in the series, but it did keep the reader reading, and engaged.