I'm so glad I wasn't scared away from this book by reviews of others! I really enjoyed the first book in this series, Poison Study, but I wasn't sure whether I wanted to continue the series. Compared to the reviews for the first book, the reviews for Magic Study were very mixed or maybe even bad. However, now that Snyder has continued this series with more books that are set some years later, I was intrigued to read Magic Study & Fire Study, the last two books in the original trilogy. And maaaan did I love this book. I actually enjoyed Magic Study much more than Poison Study. Now I'm reading Fire Study while I normally never read multiple books of a series in a row. I agree with a lot of people who have said that this series is underrated.