A Spoiler Free Review
Magic For Nothing was pretty good. Definitely not perfect, but I guess as close to perfect as you can get with the kind of double undercover storyline it’s got going on. I largely like Antimony, though certain personality quirks can get annoying at times. Overall, she’s pretty chill for what we’d been led to believe coming off Verity and Alex’s POVs.
I do find Antimony’s view of Verity very grating. Antimony was lucky to fall into a sport that doesn’t get a lot of press and I would very much like to see what she would have done if it did or goes more mainstream. Calling Verity selfish all the time specifically because of the dancing is annoying. I very much get that Antimony is very family-centric more-so than either of her siblings, but this kind of thing is still annoying.
I do appreciate the X-Men references that are slightly more obscure than your average person would get. The other random bits and bobs of comic and pop culture references serve the story well, placing it firmly in a world close to ours, at least.
The Covenant isn’t just a secret society, they’re definitely a cult. Fuuuuck arranged marriages and the rationalization behind them. And pretty much fuck all the Covenant nonsense. Wanting to kill and entire community of people just because a) some of them aren’t human and b) the humans “harbored” the non-humans is just… nope. Nope. Nope. The Covenant needs to go down and the sooner the better. I do like that we got to humanize them a little bit, but humans can be trash so… yeah.
Leo somehow reminds me of Hec from Imagine Me and You until that hella creepy shit at the end there. Gross. I dislike Chloe a lot, typical mean girl energy coming off her. I really like Emery. Sam… jury’s still out. He’s young and hot-headed in addition to the protective streak he has. He and Antimony were cute while it lasted. And of course Covenant flunkies Robert and Margaret I hate with a passion. Their history precedes them. It was semi-interesting that Margaret views the Price family as still very Covenant-like, wanting to test her or something. Real weird.
I liked learning about this universes’ version of yokai. Makes some sense as a catch-all term for cryptids. It’s always struck me as a catch-all term for Japanese demons, after all.
But yeah, overall, I enjoyed Magic for Nothing. It’s always fun getting to know more characters and more of the universe.
Favorite Lines
"Every time I think my family has plumbed the depths of stupidity, somebody goes and finds a goddamn shovel." - Jane Harrington-Price
"I am a soft, squishy creature, with lots of moving pieces, and I want to keep all those moving pieces safely contained inside my skin." - Antimony Price
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