Magical Realism

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I had a lot of bad luck with not loving the fantasy books I have tried to read recently, but happily I enjoyed this one! I think I liked it because it wasn’t too different from reality, but rather it was the real world including magic. When a gruesome murder is discovered at The Osthorne Academy of Young Mages, where her estranged twin sister teaches Theoretical Magic, reluctant detective Ivy Gamble is pulled into the world of untold power and dangerous secrets. She will have to find a murderer and reclaim her sister―without losing herself. Ivy investigates a murder at a magical high school where the high schoolers are relatively normal and typical teenagers besides that they can do magic. Ivy is not magical though, and she wrestles with her feelings about having been left behind by her twin, Tabitha, who is magical. I can definitely imagine a sequel to this one.