Veena’s review of Eternal Magic (Magic for Hire, Book 3) by Alexandra Ivy
Romantic Suspense published by Lyrical Press 28 Feb 25
After reading the first two books in the series, I was on tenterhooks waiting for Maya’s story, which now surpasses my expectations and gives us an exciting finish to the trilogy – though, perhaps, the author isn’t done with this world and there are more stories to tell, if the supporting characters have their say.
Maya is lonely now that her two apprentices have both found their HEAs, even if they are both mated to powerful vampires. As Maya looks into the possibility of bringing in a new apprentice, she is drawn into the city and almost pulverized by a bomb intended for her. Her savior is someone from her past, whom she thought long dead, but, as it turns out, he’s alive and well and on assignment from the vampire council.
Ravyr and Maya team up and go in search of the echo of magic that Ravyr sensed when the bomb was exploded and originally when Maya won her freedom from the vampire Batu, who had imprisoned her. We get Maya’s back story as well as insights into the mage Tia, who is Maya’s arch nemesis as supported by a colorful cast of goblins, demons, witches, vampires, mages, and even a necromancer as the story takes readers on a thrilling ride of magic and mayhem.
Grade: A
Summary:
Maya Rosen has plenty of experience with vampires, demons, and danger. She wears the scars that prove it. But she established Witch’s Brew, her bookshop and mage’s office, as a cozy place of safety and protection. When the brutally handsome vampire Ravyr appears, decades after she thought he died in the ruins of her master’s lair, Maya is prepared for a fight. Until he saves her life instead—and they realize they have an enemy in common.
Hunting down violent goblins, treacherous mages, and drug-dealing aristocrats with Ravyr isn’t enough to make Maya trust him. She’s been betrayed before, and she knows the vampire isn’t telling her everything. But the attraction between them grows, even as their chase brings them closer to a terrifying possibility. Maya knows desire is its own magic. And with horrors from the past lying in wait, they’ll need all the power they can tame . . .
