Through dialogue and scenes, we are meeting the different types of London’s and obtaining their descriptions, we meet characters and where the plot may go. That is exactly what we get with A Darker Shade of Magic. By build up, I mean she is building not only the world, Schwab is also letting us get to know the characters she’s created, and what the plot entails. Schwab has a very distinct way of writing where usually the beginning of each book is a slow build up. I am obsessed with Schwab’s writing style.

I have read The Archived, Vicious, and Monsters of Verity Duology. A Darker Shade of Magic is the story of how balance is really important with all four London’s and getting that balance restored.įor those who have been following my blog for a little while now, you all know that Schwab isn’t a new-to-me author. However, she might be everything Kell needed to have everything in order. With those consequences comes an adventure to get everything back to the way it’s supposed to be and throughout this back and forth of London’s, Kell meets Lila Bard in a not so pleasant way. Each London is different in its own way and while traveling to one particular London, Kell finds that he might have to pay for the consequences of his smuggling from London to London.

He serves the Red London Empire and is used to travel the different Londons per duty. Kell who so happens to be a main character and Antari, was raised in Red London as an adopted son to the King and Queen. In present times, a lot of people think that Black London is a myth, a story that you tell your children to scare them. The four Londons are Red, Grey, White, and Black. Once a upon a time, the four Londons co-existed and with it, Antari, magicians that have the ability to travel from London to London. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn.

She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.Īfter an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see. Kell was raised in Arnes-Red London-and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see. Kell is one of the last Antari-magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.

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