Magic's Child
Sadly, I didn't actually find this book anywhere in my area for over a year after it came out. Argh, eh? Well, I've got it now. I'm not sure if I'm as fond of it as I am the other two, mainly because it goes to some strange places. I'm not dissing it, but it's a bit hard to grasp even for the characters.
Anyway, this is the third and final book in a trilogy, and by the end of book 2, the Cansino relatives were gifted with a lot of magic. Reason herself got a big WHOPPING gift of magic, which seems to be transforming her rapidly into someone not quite human. She goes bald, she doesn't need food or sleep, and she keeps shifting into a magical space. If she keeps it up, she may lose her humanity forever, but is that a bad thing? She's not sure.
At the same time, she's needed by her friends and family. Jay-Tee is about to die at any second, and now Reason can do something about...which has both good and bad benefits for Jay-Tee. Tom finds himself going in a few different directions. And Reason's evil grandfather kidnaps her mother, and Reason has to figure out how to find her and then solve the problem of all the Cansinos wanting her magic...
The ending of this lingered with me (and brought on some wacky-ass dreams, and a bit of horror as well) for awhile. Mostly it ends in what I'd call a "sensible" solution given the setup of the book, but there's the potential later on for things to, well.... let's just say that's what kept me dreaming funny, and I'll mention it below the cut.
I'll give it three and a half stars.
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All of my quibbles have to do with Reason's baby.
1. As Tom points out, it's kind of bizarre/sick to name your child Magic AFTER you've gotten rid of all of the magic in your family. Though Danny liking the name because of Magic Johnson is kinda funny.
2. I was totally baffled as to how Reason could turn off the very source of Cansino family magic, while pregnant, and yet her child could still be magical. After much pondering and wacky dreaming, I figured that she might have turned off HER inheritance, but it might still be running on Danny's side of the family, even if (a) he's not magical and (b) the lone still-alive person in the family who had magic no longer has it. I guess that could work, though it does make me wonder if anyone who isn't born with magic but has magical relatives would pass that gene on.
3. I guess that's why Tom alone decides to keep his magic- he'll have to have it to be a mentor to the baby later when her family can't help her. But still, this creeps me out somehow and I don't know why.
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