Years later Diz lives in an apartment with best friends Jaesin and Remi and along with techwitch Ania they run a business siphoning maz from the corporation that controls all magic in the city. The story follows Diz, a teenager orphaned as a result of the infamous spellplague that killed thousands of people. I ended up being completely obsessed with this crazy adventure of a heist gone wrong and a group of friends trying to save the day. England’s other novel The Disasters so I was excited to give this a whirl. When I read the synopsis for Spellhacker I thought it sounded like a wonderful blend of science fiction and fantasy and I’d been keen to read M. Their next job is supposed to be their last heist ever.īut when their plan turns up a powerful new strain of maz that (literally) blows up in their faces, they’re driven to unravel a conspiracy at the very center of the spellplague-and possibly save the world. Which is why Diz and her three best friends run a highly lucrative, highly illegal maz siphoning gig on the side. Then an earthquake released a magical plague, killing thousands and opening the door for a greedy corporation to make maz a commodity that’s tightly controlled-and, of course, outrageously expensive. In Kyrkarta, magic-known as maz-was once a freely available natural resource. Source: The publisher kindly sent me a copy of this book to reviewįrom the author of The Disasters, this genre-bending YA fantasy heist story is perfect for fans of Marie Lu and Amie Kaufman.
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