Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for providing me this advanced copy in exchange for an honest review. This book is pure magic and a wonderful conclusion to the Practical Magic series. It had all the charm, magic, heartbreak, and love that one would expect in Alice Hoffman's work. The return of characters that seemed gone is a lovely way to tie up the story for the family. I definitely cried several times as this has so much emotion as the characters move through dealing with the curse Marie Owens put on the family so many years ago.

Like all of Hoffman's books in this series, this is full of lovely language about magic and friends and family and love and despair and fear and depression and happiness. But boy is it white and wealthy. It's a little too easy for the characters to just leave jobs and demands and hop on airplanes, and everyone wants to help them and trusts them. The villain is a bit cartoonish and his backstory is pretty thin and superficial. So enjoy the language and moving passages, but do give a thought of how simple it seems it is to be white and rich and a witch, even a cursed witch.

Alice Hoffman continues to cement her spot as one of my most favorite authors. I loved this book and the Owens. I truly hope this is not the last of them. Like Rules of Magic and Magic Lessons, this was another outstanding and heart felt journey - An ode to books, libraries, love and family bonds. Put this on your TBR.

Please see my GoodReads review for much greater detail: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4130856030

I absolutely loved this whole Magic series by Alice Hoffman. I enjoyed this final wrap up of the Owens family of witches. Sorry to see it end, it was so well written and researched.

I will highly recommend this to my book club and friends. Start with book 1 and savor the whole saga.

As much as I hate to see this saga end, I don’t think it could have been done better. It was timely, heartfelt, well-rounded and held so much wisdom, written in an enjoyable way. I love Alice Hoffman’s magical writing, and this was some of her best. Lots of characters, but no difficulty keeping them straight. Loved it.

A yellow lighted room, enough to read by but not so bright as to draw your face into harsh geometric planes, a blanket for your feet, a cushion for your lap, and, if you are very, very lucky, a puppy snoring softly nearby, her paws twitching slighly in imagined pursuit.

Alice Hoffman does it again!
I love her books with the Owen women stories, especially since I am a relative of the Owen generations.
Hoffman’s historical research crafts immersive stories with these characters.

I highly recommend this author and reading these books especially if you loved the Practical Magic movie, there’s so much more in the books. I also recommend this author and this next book if you enjoy historical fiction and also on the fence of reading about witches. You won’t be disappointed.

This book made me so happy. Author Alice Hoffman has gifted us a wonderful final installment in the Practical Magic series and with the Owens family. THE BOOK OF MAGIC connects the previous books and weaves everything into one final tale that is satisfying, meaningful and let‘s us leave these beloved characters in good hands.

One of my favorite family's stories comes to an end in The Book of Magic. The beloved Owens family comes together to tell the rest of their story, both present and past. I think we all want to believe we have a little witchery in our veins and a hidden family grimoire in our attics. The aunts have grown older. The youngest Owens girls have begun families of their own and are settling into their college/ career life. And of course that is when tragedy always strikes. Everyone knows how dangerous love is to the Owens women. The deathwatch beetle makes its appearance more than once in the story. And love is at stake.
Overall, this was a great ending to the Magic story of the Owens family. A little bit of me hoped they would always live on. Everyone needs aunties like Jet and Franny. They have made this story one of the most heartfelt from the beginning. I will always be on the outlook for work by Alice Hoffman and will always recommend her stories. I love how she can transport you away to a magical land with her perfect storytelling. Special thanks to Alice Hoffman, NetGalley, and Simon & Schuster for the advanced digital copy in exchange for my honest opinion. 5 stars

Leave your world and step into that of a magical family cursed from love for three hundred years. Three generations of women begin a journey to end the curse forever, facing dark magis and a revengeful man. The novel is the perfect ending to the previous books by Ms. Hoffman.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Can’t believe this is the last of the Owen’s stories! The lives of all the different generations of women has been fascinating and so magical. I love all the plant lore that’s weaved in the pages. It’s all wrapped up nicely and we get closure for one and all. Ms. Hoffman has always been one of my top three favorite authors. With every book I read I jot down things that stand out and touch me. There were many from this one. One phrase that hits close to home - “There are some things you have only once in a lifetime, and then only if you’re lucky.” Reminds me of my son who I miss every day.

First I want to say that I was so excited to receive an arc of The Book of Magic! I have loved reading this series so much and this book was the perfect conclusion. Beautifully written and keeps you turning the pages to the very end. The Owens have a special place in my heart!

The final installment in Hoffman's Practical Magic series, this book will satisfy those who want closure and want to fill in the blanks in the Owens family history. With its focus on the youngest generation, it could stand on its own, but readers familiar will the series will get more out of the elements completing the some of the family stories, particularly those drawn from the Practical Magic prequel The Rules of Magic. Although the new characters may not be quite as finely drawn and engaging as some in previous novels, the youngest generation of Owenses have much to offer and show how the world has evolved to accept new definitions of family and suggest possibilities of love, forgiveness, and healing not available to previous generations. A must-purchase for public libraries, given the success of the series and Hoffman's popularity, this book will also find a home in academic libraries with leisure reading sections and/or curriculum exploring witchcraft, contemporary literature, and family sagas.

A wonderful coda to the story of Jet and Fanny. Great character development, a strong story line, and a story that captured your heart. A wonderful acknowledgement of these special characters who grabbed our hearts so long ago.

One of the best parts of Practical Magic is its firm planting in the realm of magical realism. We are wholly left to our own imaginations to wonder if sprigs of rosemary or table salt thrown over a shoulder truly lead to luck and good fortune or if a soup of lye could do anything more than dissolve a dead man’s bones. Or was it his wretched soul? In Practical Magic, the question remains: are the Owens’ women really witches, or do they simply bear the heavy burden of the New England witch fever? Alice Hoffman’s continuation of the Owens’ family history with her prequels The Rules of Magic and Magic Lessons leaves nothing to the imagination: the Owens women (and men) are descended from witches, practioners not only of the nameless art, but of bloodline magic. This makes the Book of Magic a not so unpredictable dive from realism into the truly fantastic. We get a tidy if not sad end to our hero from the desert, Gary Hallett, see Antonia transformed from a brat to student doctor, and follow Gillian and the science teacher to their intentionally divided home as we are introduced to the Owens’ curse. Only briefly touched upon in Practical Magic as the sisters being “unlucky in love” we now know that there is a true curse set down by their ancestor Maria Owens, and this curse is what killed Gary, and Sally’s husband Michael before him. Gideon and Kiley venture headlong into the curse, and the Book of Magic begins to bind all the ties that have separated the Owens family for years, reuniting siblings and matching lovers, even amid loss and danger. We are rushed into the world of left-hand path magic and all its perils while the Owens family collects a truly interesting cast of magical characters. The Book of Magic is a fantastical tale where blood line magic meets the nameless art practiced by humans for thousands of years, mingling destiny with true love. Breaking curses and mending hearts. It is truly about claiming your heritage, being your truest self, and letting love in. Even those disappointed by the spring from magical realism to a book series full of outright magic will love seeing the Owens Family story tie together completely in the Book of Magic.

I loved this story. It had me turning pages as fast as I could to get to the end to see if/how the curse was broken. I kept picturing the characters from the movie, Practical Magic, and would love to see this made into a film. The Book of Magic had me googling various terms to see just how much was based on actual history. An extremely satisfying read, in my opinion.

I absolutely loved this book. I've read all of the other books in the series, and was SO EXCITED to get the ARC that I screamed. I devoured this book in a little over two days, and highlighted so many passages that I will go back to again and again.
It's bittersweet, thinking that this is the last book about the Owens family and that their story is complete. The ending was satisfying, although I did spy a sliver of an opening for more books (hint, hint). These are characters that I have grown to love over the years, and I loved what fate (and magic) had in store for each of them.
I HIGHLY recommend this to others, but you should probably read the other books in the series first. Go now, what are you waiting for?

Thank you to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC!

Having read all the books involving the Owens family and their bloodline magic, this final entry in their story was my favorite. It was a wonderful ending.

The perfect ending to the Owens Family saga! Hoffman's prose is lyrical and the story is satisfying. I was enchanted and moved.