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Magic for Liars
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A Locus Awards Nominee for 2020
One of Hudson Booksellers' Best of the Year for 2019
Sharp, mainstream fantasy meets compelling thrills of investigative noir in Magic for Liars, a fantasy debut by rising star Sarah Gailey.
Ivy Gamble was born without magic and never wanted it. Ivy Gamble is perfectly happy with her life - or at least, she’s perfectly fine. She doesn't in any way wish she was like Tabitha, her estranged, gifted twin sister.
Ivy Gamble is a liar.
When a gruesome murder is discovered at the Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches theoretical magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister - without losing herself.
“An unmissable debut.” (Adrienne Celt, author of Invitation to a Bonfire)
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When Sienna Walker is nearly fired from the NYPD, the last thing she expects is a second chance in the one place she vowed never to return to. But she can’t afford to turn down the job offer, even if a painful familial past and a broken engagement hardly make Reno, Nevada, home sweet home. It’s made even less sweet by Sienna’s first case—a serial killer with a curious fixation on her. Along with his victims, the killer leaves perplexing clues and chilling journal entries addressed to Sienna detailing the murders he claims his mother committed.
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Not her best work
- By Heather Schuelke on 07-03-23
By: Mia Sheridan
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By the Book
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In this clever YA rom-com debut perfect for fans of Kasie West and Ashley Poston, a teen obsessed with 19th-century literature tries to cull advice on life and love from her favorite classic heroines to disastrous results - especially when she falls for the school's resident Lothario.
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I have a book hangover and there’s no “hair of the dog” because this is a debut.
- By SAJB on 08-27-20
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The Ravens
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At first glance, the sisters of ultra-exclusive Kappa Rho Nu - the Ravens - seem like typical sorority girls. Ambitious, beautiful, and smart, they’re the most powerful girls on Westerly College’s Savannah, Georgia, campus. But the Ravens aren’t just regular sorority girls. They’re witches.
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By: Kass Morgan, and others
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The Scent of Murder
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The way Jazz Ramsey figures it, life is pretty good. She is 35 years old and owns her own home in one of Cleveland's most diverse, artsy, and interesting neighborhoods. She has a job she likes as an administrative assistant at an all-girls school and a volunteer interest that she's passionate about - Jazz is a cadaver dog handler. Jazz is working with Luther, a cadaver dog in training. Luther is still learning cadaver work, so Jazz is putting him through his paces at an abandoned building. When Luther signals a find, Jazz is stunned to see the body of a young woman.
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The cover is a sham. Dogs not involved.
- By Horse Rider on 06-21-21
By: Kylie Logan
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The Roads Left Behind Us
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Even if Callie were to entertain the idea of dating, she's certain it would be with someone vibrant, open, and close to her own age. Definitely not someone like Dr. Kate Jory, a new member of Pennbrook College's English department. Kate is both intimidating and a closed book. And the age difference between them is not small. But Kate is also brilliant and fascinating, and Callie is drawn to her in ways she'd never imagined possible.
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The Roads Left Behind Us
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On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize - a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants.
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creepy escape room story
- By Barbara S on 11-18-21
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Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
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When Danny discovers a taped-up box in his father's closet filled with old letters and a file on a powerful Silicon Valley family, he realizes there's much more to his family's past than he ever imagined. Danny has been an artist for as long as he can remember, and it seems his path is set, with a scholarship to RISD and his family's blessing to pursue the career he's always dreamed of. Still, contemplating a future without his best friend, Harry Wong, by his side makes Danny feel a panic he can barely put into words.
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A poignant, touching novel for the Asian American millennial
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Outling
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Magic doesn't exist in the human world. As far as I know. But when I fling a fireball at a bully, my horrified mom dumps me at Crystal Wing Academy, a place straight out of my favorite fantasy books. They tell me I'm an Outling, a wizard born from non-magical parents. Mom's human. Dad? I don't exactly know who he is....
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UNEXPECTED TREAT Kent Junge
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The Frame-Up
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MG Martin lives and breathes geek culture. She works as a writer for the comic book company she idolized as a kid. But despite her love of hooded vigilantes, MG prefers her comics stay on the page. But when someone in LA starts recreating crime scenes from her favorite comic book, MG is the LAPD’s best - and only - lead. She recognizes the golden arrow left at the scene as the calling card of her favorite comic book hero. The thing is…superheroes aren’t real. Are they? When Detective Kildaire asks for her comic book expertise, MG is more than up for the adventure.
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Hit or Miss, Saved by the Narrator
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The Hex Files Bundle, Books 1-3
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This bundle includes books 1-3 in the Hex Files series, a fast-paced paranormal mystery series with a kickass heroine, hilarious sidekicks, and an immersive world that will pull you in faster than you can say pizza: Wicked Never Sleeps, Wicked Long Nights, and Wicked State of Mind.
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Poorly executed, naration is fine though
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Brink of Death
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The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths passing in the night. Twelve-year-old Erin Willit opened her eyes to darkness lit only by the dim green nightlight near her closet door and the faint glow of a street lamp through her front window. She felt her forehead wrinkle, the fingers of one hand curl as she tried to discern what had awakened her. Something was not right.... Annie Kingston moves to Grove Landing for safety and quiet - and comes face to face with evil.
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Potential for a great series,but lacking by itself
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- D. Daly
- 06-14-19
I love this book and it wrecked me.
You may think you know how this book is going to end, but you're probably wrong.
The characters in Magic For Liars are indeed mostly liars. They're flawed people, making mistakes and hurting each other for a variety of reasons. For me, that made this book so much more interesting.
I'm struggling to write more about this book without spoiling it, so I will end saying I really loved this.
Sarah Gailey knows people, and they know how to write people that seem real. Xe Sands performed this book exquisitely.
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- Corinne
- 08-17-19
Well worth the credit
Interesting and suprising. Worth the purchase, particularly if you like a good mystery, fully fleshed out characters, and an unreliable narrator.
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- 🎧AudiobookFiend
- 02-12-20
Murder. Mystery. Magic. Marvelous!
What an absolutely scintillating story from Sarah Gailey! Xe Sands was the perfect narrator for this book, different and understated, allowing the story to unfold seamlessly. It’s no wonder at all why this is on the Goodreads 2019 nominations for Best Books of 2019 in the Fantasy category. Murder. Mystery. Magic. Marvelous!
⚖️ Plot: This was so cleverly done, giving us glimpses into the truth and then misdirecting us almost immediately. The pace was just right allowing us to follow comfortably. And for the type of writing Gailey used, the ending was spot on!
🗺 World: As this was a magic system in our own world, there wasn’t much need to elaborate on it. But if the book were a little longer, she could‘ve gone into a little more detail on the surroundings, architecture, and how these schools of magic came to be in our society.
💑 Characters: It’s been a while since I’ve like a female character as much as I do Ivy Gamble. She’s real, she’s smart and so easy to relate to. I was very happy to see a breath of diversity and genuine air with Rahul. I really hope to see them and more books by Gailey in the future.
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- Nullzone
- 04-27-23
If teen drama was written for adults
The mystery at the heart was very well done, and the characters all felt lively without being caricatured. The family strife was palpable without overshadowing the story and the characters’ journeys, and the whole thing does such a wonderful job at showing how we all carry the scars of generational trauma, no matter how well-adjusted we may seem.
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- Lucy Merriman
- 09-16-19
Great story, great narration
it's been a while since I finished a book in a day or two. this novel is truly compulsively listen-able. I couldn't wait to get back to it when I took a break.
Ultimately, Magic for Liars blends an intriguing, fast paced mystery--one in which the narrator has to learn a world's worth of Magical rules and systems on the sly in order to understand enough to solve a murder, which creates excellent tension-- and a moving character study that explores why we sometimes lie to ourselves, and the tension between the power of fantasy to make your life better and the cowardice in refusing (or procrastinating) facing reality as it is.
The relationships are all very believable, even if the romantic subplot veers into cliche territory. if you've read much romance, you can basically see each beat coming a mile away. but even then! The chemistry is there and enjoyable. Without spoilers, I will say that I liked the open-ended, um, ending of the subplot. it's not that unresolved romantic subplots are new, but it works here.
overall, I give this book 5/5 stars, and I definitely want to read more by this author.
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- K. White
- 11-03-19
Meh story
The whodunit was predictable and it struck me as needlessly a la mode to use [hot button topic omitted for spoiler reasons] as a plot device. The performance - I think she was going for conversational/naturalistic, but the variances in cadence and volume in the narration made it harder to understand.
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- Shannon Hensley
- 12-18-22
magic from the view of the jealous
I loved it. it was a hard listen to though. You slowly listen to the main character lie to herself and lose the point of what she's doing. She falls hard and fast for every ounce of magic. And the first half she gets a lot of the info she needs but takes a while to put it together. Blinded by her jealousy and regrets she misses everything in front of her. and her lying should not have worked as much as it did.
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- Elliot
- 02-24-23
A compelling, well-composed noir mystery, with magic for flavor
I could gush about the elegance of the mystery and themes, but I'm struggling to find anything to say that isn't a spoiler or already included in the title of this review. The bulk of the story is grounded in Ivy's personal narrative--grappling with her estrangement from her sister and her own self-loathing--which provides a nice backbone for the collision of two very different genres. The author does a good job balancing the fantastic with the mysterious: she creates a believable world, while only giving Ivy (and us) glimpses of it, never getting bogged down in cumbersome worldbuilding; and the book focuses little on the well-worn police procedural elements more standard to detective stories, leaning into its high school setting for much of the actual clue-gathering, which felt fresh and interesting to me. Imo, a good mystery is one that the audience has a chance of putting together for themselves, and this book does that very well
In short, it was a really solid story, with a satisfying ending that came back around to answer every question it brought up along the way
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- Midwest Male
- 07-19-19
not a fantasy book
this is really a story about a woman estranged from her twin sister. the sister is more beautiful, smarter, more "magical". someone dies in the beginning and then it gets progressively more boring and less interesting with each chapter until the grand reveal...which was anticlimactic to say the least. magic is largely irrelevant to the story. it is used in places, but it's just decoration. I liked the narration, but the story was boring.
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- 08-13-19
great narration, not very magical
this book was recommended to me. and I did enjoy it. mostly for the relationship between the two astranged sisters. the magic part was almost unnecessary. the narration was very good. she really carried the story.
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