Only the Antari - the increasingly rare people born with magic in their blood - can naturally traverse these worlds, so they serve as liaisons between the rulers of the three surviving Londons. Schwab's backdrop involves four parallel worlds with four parallel Londons, each with a different history, ruler, and society. The book could have been compulsively readable even without a major conflict - like Katherine Addison's recent standout fantasy novel The Goblin Emperor, A Darker Shade Of Magic is set in a world idiosyncratic enough that it doesn't need to be threatened to be compelling. She builds a setting elaborate and unfamiliar enough that it matters once the familiar tropes start threatening it. Once the main arc finally slips fully out of the shadows, it turns out to be fairly standard for a fantasy novel: Evil scheming magicians, cursed and forbidden item, dark magic ready to consume everything it touches.īut Schwab takes her time in getting there. Schwab's second adult novel, A Darker Shade Of Magic, is how long it takes to develop a plot.
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This box-set Collects together SHADES OF MAGIC Vol 1: The Steel Prince, SHADES OF MAGIC Vol 2: Night of Knives, SHADES OF MAGIC Vol 3: The Rebel Army.Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title A Darker Shade of Magic Author V. There, he encounters an unruly band of soldiers, a lawless landscape, and through a series of incredible adventures learns what it means to be a leader and what it takes to be a future king. Including art cards featuring the cover art from the individual books.ĭelve into the thrilling, epic tale of the young and arrogant prince Maxim Maresh, long before he became the king of Red London and adoptive father to Kell, the lead protagonist of A Darker Shade of Magic! The youthful Maresh is sent to a violent and unmanageable port city on the Blood Coast of Verose, on strict orders from his father, King Nokil Maresh, to cut his military teeth in this lawless landscape. This three-volume box-set, is the comic book prequel to A Darker Shade of Magic novel and is perfect for fans of bloody, swashbuckling adventure and gritty fantasy. Schwab and torn from the universe of the Shades of Magic. Written by #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E.
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