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Happy Solstice! ☉ (at Newgrange National Monuments)

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When you want to read a book after reading ACOMAF but your standards suddenly goes high so you sit there like

#I'm still fucked up

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this is a psa to read a darker shade of magic because it does not get the recognition it deserves tbh

the setting is:

an alternate “red” london set in the 1800′s full of magic

our london set in the 1800′s with no magic

a dangerous white london set in the 1800′s FULL of magic

the protagonists are:

kell: one of two antari (magicians who can travel between the three londons) and a smuggler. he’s also chronically grumpy. from red london

lila bard: a true neutral thief from grey london who is terrified of commitment and the first thing she does when coming in contact with magic is make a stripper version of kell. actual pirate and probably trans (not canon though)

rhy maresh: the prince of red london and also a canonically bisexual poc. charming and laid-back. he is flirting with you.

the villains are:

athos and astrid dane: twin rulers of white london; blood thirsty and power hungry.

holland: the other antari. angry and cold; probably because he’s working for the twins

the problem is:

a piece of a dead london that kell smuggled. everyone wants it and no one should have it.

things to look forward to:

stripper kell

ass-kicking ladies

great worldbuilding for all of the londons

amoral characters

interesting relationships and power dynamics

no heavy handed romance but shipping fodder all over the place

ALUCARD EMERY: not in it til the next book but a charming canonically bisexual poc and a pirate privateer

a tv show (sometime in the future) with direct input from the author!!

seriously check it out! here is the authors blog, too

Me, surpressing a smile during a fellow student's presentation: oh gosh, I hope he doesn't think I'm smirking at what he's saying, I'm actually just thinking about how when my sister met V.E. Schwab, she told V that she'd just finished AGOS the night before and V's response was "I'm so sorry."

#me rn