The Last Magician was just fine. Despite having one of my favorite book elements - a heist - I just found too much lacking in this book. I wanted more context, more worldbuilding, and more from the characters. I didn't dislike our characters, but I felt like I was being asked to care about the characters more than was warranted based on the amount that the author provided. And all of this in a 500 page book which was already on the longer side. The pacing was all over the place as well and it took almost halfway through the book for things to become clearer and for the heist to appear. All in all, I didn't dislike the book, I just felt very meh about it and I'm not interested in continuing the series.