Book Review
Title: Macario’s Scepter (Magian Series #1)
Author: M.J. McGriff
Genre: YA/Fantasy
Rating: DNF
Review: I recently joined BookSirens, a review platform for publishers and authors and this was the first book that jumped out at me, so I decided to give it a go. I learnt that this book is told in multiple perspectives and the first one we get is from our protagonist, Samara Davalos. Samara has been abandoned by her ex-lover, Captain Baz Blackwater and is trying to get back to where she belongs but she is caught stealing money. We switch the Baz’s perspective where he is trying to claim his father’s place on the Pirate Council by finding Macario’s Scepter, the greatest treasure known to all pirates but it means passing through Majestic Isle but he needs the last piece of the map and I believe that Samara is in possession of it. We then switch perspective again to that of Seraphina, Samara’s twin sister. Seraphina is a member of a religious Order and tries to convince Samara to join but that is never going to happen when Baz breaks in to steal the last piece of the map when he learns he needs someone with Macario’s birthmark to claim the Scepter and the birthmark is split between Seraphina and Samara, so he decides to take Samara with him as a prisoner.
Honestly for me I read the first 15% of Macario’s Scepter and I wasn’t enjoying the writing style, the characters were a little bland and the plot wasn’t really interesting as it was a generic heist plot. I DNF’d it at this point because for me personally, I can tell within the first 10-20% whether or not I am going to enjoy a book and while I though Macario’s Scepter was going to be a book I would enjoy it didn’t turn out that way.
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I received this review copy from BookSirens.
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