• The Masquerading Magician

  • An Accidental Alchemist Mystery
  • By: Gigi Pandian
  • Narrated by: Julia Motyka
  • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (3,471 ratings)

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The Masquerading Magician

By: Gigi Pandian
Narrated by: Julia Motyka
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Deciphering an ancient alchemy book is more difficult than Zoe Faust bargained for. She'd much rather be gardening and exploring her new hometown of Portland, Oregon - but time is running out for living gargoyle Dorian Robert-Houdin. If Zoe isn't able to unlock an unusual alchemy book's secrets soon, the French gargoyle will remain awake but trapped in stone forever.

When Zoe gives herself a rare night out to attend a classic magic show, she realizes the stage magicians are much more than they seem. A murder at the theater leads back to a string of unsolved robberies and murders in Portland's past - and a mystery far more personal than Zoe and Dorian ever imagined.

©2016 Gigi Pandian (P)2016 Audible, Inc.

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Redundancy Abounds!!!

Each of the three books offers an interesting story BUT the repetition of back story, to do lists, possible repercussions, her thoughts, age, etc. are sooo annoying. In a series, it is necessary to cover some of the same ground, but this author goes beyond bringing us up to speed. Does she have no faith that her readers can remember what was said on the previous page or in even the previous paragraph? By the third book, I was commenting - out loud - that I didn't need to hear EVERY aspect of the story AGAIN and again. I'm not sure I'll finish the third book because I'm tired of hearing the same thing over and over while making so little progress forward in the actual story. The book could be half or even a third as long if properly edited.

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Garbage

If you liked the first book in this series then you should just quit while you're ahead. This one is bad. Really bad. Bad story, bad writing, bad everything. The plot is disjointed and it never comes together. I think the author must have been making it up as she went along. The actual story could have been told in about a third of the time, and the rest is just the author repeating the same details over and over again. I fast forwarded through the last 10 chapters and was still disappointed at how slow the story moved. I would give the story zero stars if I could. It's read well though...so that's something I guess.

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Interesting Premise, but enough with Vegan thing

Any additional comments?

I think the premise of both books is quite good, but I am NOT interested in hearing about her Vegan beliefs if I am reading a mystery. Performance comes across as "holier-than-thou", which is part writer's fault and part narrator. Would I read a third book? Good question, I probably would, because they are obviously going to France to save Dorian, but PLEASE, you've made your point about the Vegan lifestyle. Both books would be novellas (but very good novellas) without the New Age / Vegan propaganda. Yes, I do eat veggies - on the side, with a steak!

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What happened to Gigi here?

I've read/listened to several of Gigi Pandian's books. This one, however, was sluggish, with so much repetition of the facts, that it was boring and I listened to several other books before going back to regretfully finishing it. It's disturbing that a female major character is so whiny, depressed, insecure and with such a lack of personal pride as to live the way she does. Please give this character a lift at some point (when does Anything good happen to her?).

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Good story but repeating past facts over and over felt like she was writing to someone with memory problems.

Good story but repeating past facts over and over felt like she was writing to someone with memory problems. I had to stop listening from the annoyance a few times before I finished the book.

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Stupid Stupid Vegan Protagonist

Couldn't take much more of the main character making such stupid decisions. And it's obvious the author is an extreme vegan - trying to make us all believe we all should be Vegan - if that were true, vegans wouldn't need to take supplements .
If the story were better , I could have overlooked this.

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student

Felt a bit like a junior novel or like she had to keep repeating things because I was a 100 n couldn't remember anything. Then they were the history lessons, although interesting felt like I was a student.

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Still enjoyable - but lazy writing

Too much repetition of plot line from 1st book and lots of dumbing things down - like repeating the obvious and repeating the same phrases over and over.

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Like a tour guide looking backward...

I'm truly addicted to this series of books by Gigi Pandian because I love the story. I am unnerved however, by Pandian's insistance on repeating what has come before at east four times in every chapter. Like a tour guide looking backward. I wish she would just let us follow the story she's told without reminding us every few pages what it is she's already written.

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Transitional Sequel Syndrome

Transitional Sequel Syndrome (TSS)...I'm making it an official literary and movie condition. This condition occurs when a book or movie sequel finds a minor unresolved issue from the first edition that it can use to transition and set-up the characters and situations of the first episode into a third sequel, that will hopefully address a major unresolved issue from the first. While still enjoyable, "The Masquerading Magician" has TSS.

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