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Magic's Child (Magic Or Madness Trilogy) | 
 enlarge | Author: Justine Larbalestier
Publisher: Razorbill
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 161202
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 304
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 1595141812
EAN: 9781595141811
ASIN: 1595141812
Publication Date: March 27, 2008
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Condition: Very Good +; Format: Trade Paperback. Year: 2008. Magic Or Madness Trilogy Book Three.
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In the third and final installment in the Magic or Madness trilogy, only Reason can find answers within her family s magic to save everyone that matters most to her. Magic s Child is the fantastically gripping conclusion to a trilogy that launched to multiple starred reviews, earning spots on the 2006 BBYA final list, and the Locus 2005 and 2006 Recommended Reading Lists.
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 A Conclusion and a Beginning May 20, 2007
Little Willow (USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Australian author Justine Larbalestier's first novel, Magic or Madness, challenged Reason - that is, to say, a teenage girl named Reason who spent her life with her cheery mother, until her lovely mother went a little mad. Reason realized that the stories her mom told her were true. Magic exists, and it runs through the veins of all of the women in her family. Either they use it and die young or they repress it and go mad.
Her grandmother, who is depicted as a villain in all of her mother's stories, takes Reason in when she has no other place to go. Reason then meets her gran's neighbor, a boy her own age, and Jay-Tee, who lives in New York - which magically appears outside of her grandmother's door. The story continued in Magic Lessons, when the stakes were raised and the powers of the main characters tested.
Now the final chapter in the Magic or Madness trilogy is here: Magic's Child. The title itself is a huge spoiler, obviously. I recommend that you read the trilogy in the proper order for the ultimate impact.
Each character gets his or her moment in the spotlight here as the story bounces back and forth between locations and viewpoints. I enjoyed Reason's travels around the world, confirming the presence of other doors and introducing her to another generation of magic-users. (Can you say spinoff?) I found myself liking Jay-Tee more and more as the story progressed. Even Sarafina has a memorable scene in which she creates butterflies. Such a childlike innocence about her then, making her greedy demeanor and evil actions only a short while later all the more scary.
Magic's Child pushes Reason's sanity and strength to the brink. Will she go past the point of no return? Has she any reason to stick around? Find out by reading the book, then share the magic of Reason's world and Larbalestier's writing with other fantasy fans.
 Courtesy of Teens Read Too June 1, 2007
TeensReadToo.com (All Over the US & Canada)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At the start of this wonderful conclusion to a great fantasy trilogy, Reason Cansino is a lot of things most fifteen year olds aren't. She's magic. She's pregnant. And she may or may not be entirely human.
In this continuation of Reason's story, she is falling more and more deeply into the strange, ancient, and inhuman power given to her by Raul Cansino. She is becoming more and more scarily powerful--but she's giving up her humanity (and maybe that of her unborn child) for that power. She won't die young like so many magic-wielders who use their powers unwisely, and neither will she go crazy and end up in the loony-bin with her mother.
But is giving up her humanity worth it?
MAGIC'S CHILD is strictly a continuation of an already begun story. It is not a story within itself, really, and, as such, should only be picked up by those who have read the first two parts of the trilogy (Magic or Madness (Magic or Madness Trilogy) and Magic Lessons (Magic or Madness Trilogy)). If you haven't read those, well, they're highly recommended, as well!
Justine Larbalestier's third installment in the MAGIC OR MADNESS trilogy is a good conclusion to the story, one that will have readers racing through it as fast as possible. It was a little bit open-ended for my taste, but not in a terrible cliffhanger way. It was either a less than fabulous last chapter or a fabulous way to leave the door open for another book set in this universe; who knows? Either way, the characters, dialogue, and style of MAGIC'S CHILD are all great, it's well worth reading, and I'm looking forward to reading more from Justine Larbalestier.
Reviewed by: Jocelyn Pearce
Completely perfect ending!!! August 3, 2007
H. Tinkham (IN)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was a great way to end te series. A tantalizing taste of what magic could be like if it existed. 5 stars, and this authour is awesome. I will read anything else she comes out with.
~*Magic's Child Review*~ October 18, 2008
Ashley Ritchie (Alabama)
I finished Magic's Child last night and I have to say that it ended great! If you haven't read the first two books in the Magic or Madness trilogy, well then you need to! The other reviews tell you the basis of the book so i'm not going to go over that again. I'll just say that i didn't understand all the math stuff, but that is probably because I was never good at math. Other than that this trilogy was great!!
Harry Potter... not so much. November 5, 2008
M. Moline (Atlanta, GA USA)
This series has almost a scientific feel to it. I don't want to ruin the story for you but the math in this story is just beautiful to me and I'm not a very mathematical person. The magic in this is a very real thing and we go through it knowing our characters' fates until the rug is tugged out from under us and that's amazing too.
Absolutely worth the read.
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