A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1)
By V.E.Schwab
PUBLISHED YEAR: 2015
PAGE COUNT: 384 pages
Medium used : Paperback
Genre : Fantasy, Magic, Good Prose, Adventure, Action, 2024-read.
Rating : 5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Mind blowing. Head spinning. Wow! V.E.Schwab!! She just knocked off my socks and left me speechless. What an amazing story and amazing amazing world building. I got sucked into the story and didn't want to let up. I read this book really fast because couldn't put it down. It is fast paced and keeps one grooved.
Kell and Holland are the two remaining Antari. Only they can use blood magic and travel between the four different Londons, each in a different universe. These universes are like stacked up on top of each other and journey is only possible from one to the immediately adjacent world. Kell is the hero from Red London which worships magic and where he is raised as one of the royal palace princes. Holland, on the other hand, is from diabolical and dangerous White London where magic is much coveted but also controlled by the rulers. Holland is a slave and bound to the rulers' desires. Kell has a habit of smuggling objects between these worlds though it is illegal and he doesn't have a need of money. One time, without his knowledge, he brings an object - a black stone - into his London which is an object of pure magic and it threatens to consume all that is alive and magical in the universe. It befalls him to set right his mistake with the help of a handsome, pretty thief, Delilah Bard. How does he go about doing it? Whom should he confront and how does it end?
Splendid,indeed !
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