Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, 1)

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An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!

An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick--with four starred reviews!
A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR Amazon Kobo Barnes & Noble Book Riot

Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell in debut author Freya Marske's A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies.

Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He's struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents' excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what's been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he's always known.

Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it--not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.

Robin's predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they've been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles--and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep.

The Last Binding Trilogy:
A Marvellous Light
A Restless Truth
A Power Unbound

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400 pages

Average rating: 7.15

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bdgump

Aug 30, 2022

7/10 stars

I originally picked this Historical Fantasy (Romance?) because of it's gorgeous cover (Kindle does not do it justice!) and for being marked as "Red, White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell". While I don't know much about Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, I'll say that I didn't see much similarity between this and R,W,&RB but I enjoyed the read! This is Freya Marske's debut novel and I found her writing mesmerizing. Edwin and Robin's r...read more

ammareadabook

Aug 05, 2022

a mystery set in the past (check). diverse cast of characters (check). great set up for the next installment in the series (check).

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