Genre Fiction
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The Book of Magic: A Novel (4) (The Practical Magic Series)
"Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant" (The New York Times Book Review) in this breathtaking conclusion to the Practical Magic series-a spellbinding and bewitching novel that asks how far will you go to change your fate?
For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love-but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.
A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love.
A heartfelt and satisfying conclusion to a beloved series, The Book of Magic celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.
For over three-hundred years a curse has kept the Owens family from love-but all of that is about to change. The novel begins in a library, the best place for a story to be conjured, when beloved aunt Jet Owens hears the deathwatch beetle and knows she has only seven days to live. Jet is not the only one in danger-the curse is already at work.
A frantic attempt to save a young man's life spurs three generations of the Owens women, and one long-lost brother, to use their unusual gifts to break the curse as they travel from Paris to London to the English countryside where their ancestor Maria Owens first practiced the Unnamed Art. The younger generation discovers secrets that have been hidden from them in matters of both magic and love by Sally, their fiercely protective mother. As Kylie Owens uncovers the truth about who she is and what her own dark powers are, her aunt Franny comes to understand that she is ready to sacrifice everything for her family, and Sally Owens realizes that she is willing to give up everything for love.
A heartfelt and satisfying conclusion to a beloved series, The Book of Magic celebrates mothers and daughters, sisters and brothers, and anyone who has ever been in love.
Editorial Reviews
"Delightfully witchy… Alluring on its own, it's also a satisfying end to a timeless saga." -THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, Editor's Choice
"Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end." So opens The Book of Magic, the final installment of Alice Hoffman's popular Practical Magic series, a page-turning fairy tale of a saga that spans three books, one star-studded movie adaptation and multiple centuries of adventure and misadventure, love lost and found and bottomless cauldrons of sorcery in the lives of the bewitchingly witchy Owens family....like the witches who populate her stories, Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Alice Hoffman has given us such a gift with this series, and this final chapter is sure to be another heartfelt celebration of mothers and daughters and the magic of falling in love." -LITHUB
"I love Alice Hoffman. Full of Hoffman's bewitching and lucid prose and vivid characters, The Book of Magic is ultimately about the very human magic of family and love and actions that echo through generations. Filled with secrets and splendor and light and dark, the novel works as well as a stand-alone as it does as a conclusion to a mesmerizing series. It casts a spell." -MATT HAIG, New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library
"Some stories begin at the beginning and others begin at the end." So opens The Book of Magic, the final installment of Alice Hoffman's popular Practical Magic series, a page-turning fairy tale of a saga that spans three books, one star-studded movie adaptation and multiple centuries of adventure and misadventure, love lost and found and bottomless cauldrons of sorcery in the lives of the bewitchingly witchy Owens family....like the witches who populate her stories, Hoffman certainly knows how to enchant." -NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Alice Hoffman has given us such a gift with this series, and this final chapter is sure to be another heartfelt celebration of mothers and daughters and the magic of falling in love." -LITHUB
"I love Alice Hoffman. Full of Hoffman's bewitching and lucid prose and vivid characters, The Book of Magic is ultimately about the very human magic of family and love and actions that echo through generations. Filled with secrets and splendor and light and dark, the novel works as well as a stand-alone as it does as a conclusion to a mesmerizing series. It casts a spell." -MATT HAIG, New York Times best-selling author of The Midnight Library
Readers Top Reviews
JulianneMainerDeb
There was a lot in the story i just didn’t care about. I didn’t care about all these extra characters. So much going on. So much contradiction. Kylie kept trying to call antonia then antonia finally calls kylie and kylie all the sudden doesn’t want to talk. Like WHY DID WE SPEND TWO PAGES ABOUT HER WANTING TO TALK TO HER SISTER if she was gunna shun her sister when she finally talks to her!!!?!?! I loved Rules of Magic. Practical magic of course wasn’t as good as the movie. And this one, SPOILER ALERT sally’s husband from practical magic is already dead when this starts and then we spend the whole book acting like she’s never fallen in love before. We finally get some men with magic in this. But given i also listened to the audio version, they were ruined for me by the way the narrator read them. We go through some bull about one of the guys tattoos. But this is all seems like details that do not matter. And then some women in a pub warns kylie about one of the guys then later acts like no one ever warned her about him. Suffice to say the whole thing mostly really doesn’t take part at the house we all know and love. It’s in London a lot. With so much useless detail i ended up not realizing where people were at some point. Lots of switching back and forth. And SPOILER AGAIN!! Jet dies early on. If you didn’t read Rules of Magic it only sorta half covers the details you need to know what the eff is going on and why. Just so many details that we didn’t need. It drones on and on and on. And wraps up with tidy happy endings for everyone and giant chocolate rum tipsy cake, which the audio narrator pronounces in the most annoying way as if it’s supposed to sound sexy every time, that “got the whole town drunk” 🙄 i rolled my eyes a lot throughout this book. Like maybe half of it was worth reading. Half spread throughout the book. So much should have and could have been cut out.
AIDA K BARNETTEJu
Always a pleasure to read Ms. Hoffman’s stories. However, the Practical Magic series is among my very favorites. Ending the story, I feel as though I’m saying goodbye to old friends.
FayeAIDA K BARNET
I have not found time to read this book but I am looking forward to making the time soon! I read the synopsis and it sounds interesting
Robert ScatesFaye
Came super quick and in better condition than advertised. Thank you!!!
The Lanier’sRober
What a way to finish the series. Keeps giving you more and you fall more in love with older characters
