Unsympathetic Magic [Dramatized Adaptation]

Esther is at it again and just happens to fall into more trouble, she really seems to have a knack for it. While the story had very interesting moments in it, trying to figure out if there are zombies or some bad voodoo happening it suffered from trying to explain...so many things. The other books in......more

Another entirely fun and ridiculous fun book. World: The world building is solid, it builds upon the last book and the thing that makes the world building matter for this book is that it's character based. We get more of Esther and her little piece of New York and we expand on that. The Voodoo angle......more

Since the book revolves around Haitian Vodou, there's a lot of new information being fed to us as opposed to the previous books which focused more on magic and creatures without a specific source. While the book was very well researched, Resnick made the mistake of being a little too enthusiastic ab......more

Here we are in the third entry into the Esther Diamond series. UNSYMPATHETIC MAGIC doesn't feature the zany characters that the previous two books had, which is a nice shift, and the focus on Esther and Max that was lost in Doppelgangster is back. The plot about Vodou*, zombies, and bokors is okay,......more

Sometime actress Ester Diamond is back and again a magnet for supernatural trouble and the first paragraph gives hints of what's to come: zombies, voodoo, aborted human sacrifices... Unsympathetic Magic is all that and more - lots of magical mayhem with a touch of humor as Esther tries figure out wh......more