
Nevery finds that interesting, and he takes Conn as his apprentice on the provision that the boy finds a locus stone of his own. Conn should have dropped dead the day he picked Nevery’s pocket and touched the wizard’s locus magicalicus, a stone used to focus magic and work spells. In a city that runs on a dwindling supply of magic, a young boy is drawn into a life of wizardry and adventure.

I’d never before heard of the Magic Thief series or its author, Sarah Prineas, but the synopsis and the cover made me think of the Septimus Heap books by Angie Sage, so I knew I would enjoy reading it. It was also around the time of the OWLs Magical Readathon, a Harry Potter-themed reading event, and I needed a book to satisfy my Herbology requirement - a book with a title that begins with M.

When I checked out the e-book of this novel from my library, it had been a long time since I’d read a middle-grade novel, and I missed them.
