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A Conjuring of Light

A Darker Shade of Magic, Book 3

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A Conjuring of Light

By: V.E. Schwab
Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
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Witness the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in the heart-stopping conclusion to V.E. Schwab's New York Times best-selling Shades of Magic trilogy.

The precarious equilibrium among the four Londons has reached its breaking point. Once brimming with the red vivacity of magic, darkness casts a shadow over the Maresh Empire, leaving a space for another London to rise.

Kell begins to waver under the pressure of competing loyalties. Meanwhile, an ancient enemy returns to claim a crown and a fallen hero is desperate to save a decaying world.

©2017 V E Schwab (P)2017 Macmillan Audio Classics Fantasy Heartfelt

Critic Reviews

“A Darker Shade of Magic is smart, funny and sexy...and Schwab keeps the excitement coming with roller-coaster plot twists that establish her as, perhaps, the natural successor to Diana Wynne Jones's contemporary fantasy crown.” (The Independent)

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The narrators also narrate the Stormlight Archive books by Brandon Sanderson. A joy to listen to them both and hear them reprise their narration roles in V E Schwab’s fantastical trilogy. A brilliant story spanning three wonderful books, a devoured all three within 3 weeks.

I look forward to the next installment due later this year.

Always a great listen and read

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Good story, great narrators. There are a few different narrators across the series and in the last two (I think?) they use a different narrator whenever the point of view switches character. Its quite effective.

Loved the whole series

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I adored this series! The narrators in the last two books were fantastic, and the story was gripping from start to finish.

Wonderful!

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I spoil nothing but I will say I adored everything from this series and this book closed it off. I recommend it

fitting end

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The narrators accents were not only out of place (I'm sorry, Delilah Bard, a scruffy London thief voiced by a middle aged American lady??) but they also all do a poor job of reading, sounds convincing, or doing any other character voice. I ended up borrowing the actual book because I found the readers so annoying. read the book

Who chose American actors for a book set in London

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I felt the story list it’s way a bit in the final book. It was really overly schmaltzy and sentimental in parts and it was probably a third too long. It was also really ruined by the narrators, particularly the male narrator who can still only do one English accent - the annoying upper class one that Americans seem to believe represents all English. There were so many times when I wasn’t sure who was speaking because everyone sounded the same. And everyone sounded evil too. Like the stereotypical evil Englishman from American movies.

I also don’t get the point of alternating narrators between chapters - it’s o disconcerting to have character voices changing all the time depending on which narrator it is.

I really wouldn’t recommend these books on Audible. It was bad in book 2 but it got so much worse in book 3. They really should have stuck with the book 1 narrator.

But - back to the story - yes, overly long and a bit sentimental but otherwise not bad. Wish I had read it instead of listening to it. I’m not sure how much the narration is affecting my opinion.

A little too sentimental

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The book seemed to drag on, found it a bit slow, repetitive and dark without reprieve in the first half. A lot of people didn't like the narrator from the first book, but I preferred him to the two different narrators. As an Australian, I also prefer British narrators to American in general though.

More boring than the first two

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I really struggled with 2 narrators.

The female had a very clipped style of reading that came off as pretentious, and very annoying

Good story, hard to listen to

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some uncomfortable scenes to imagine if your sexually straight and the morals were a bit twisted, the author hates the idea of God.

A good plot

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