A Darker Shade of Magic
Shades of Magic, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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Steven Crossley
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By:
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V. E. Schwab
About this listen
A Darker Shade of Magic is the incredible first installment of the Shades of Magic series, from number one New York Times best-selling author V.E. Schwab.
Most people only know one London; but what if there were several? Kell is one of the last Travelers - magicians with a rare ability to travel between parallel Londons. There’s Grey London, dirty and crowded and without magic, home to the mad king George III. There’s Red London, where life and magic are revered. Then, White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne. But once upon a time, there was Black London....
©2015 V. E. Schwab (P)2015 TantorCritic Reviews
"A Darker Shade of Magic has all the hallmarks of a classic work of fantasy. Schwab has given us a gem of a tale...." (Deborah Harkeness)
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- S. C. Townsend
- 19-08-2023
Loved this book, had to actively try to ignore the narrator
This is a great story and I’m excited to get to the next one. For me the narrator gave the most unrealistic voices to the characters and almost ruined the book for me.
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- Annie Wilson
- 20-07-2022
A beautiful magical world
A bit of a slow burn. Beautifully woven story with magical worlds and lots of layers. The characters are complex in a good way, and left me wanting more.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-07-2024
Magic and adventure
Brilliant story and great characters. However, the narrator was dreadful!!! It is a credit to how good the story was that allowed me to tolerate the terrible narration. His tone was all wrong, he appeared to misinterpret the story and his female voices were embarrassing!
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- Anonymous User
- 28-05-2025
Excellent story & audiobook
I fell in love with this within the first minute of listening. Love the story, how it’s written and the narrator did a great job.
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- Naedrax17
- 26-02-2021
Slow start
The idea was intriguing & story was ok, but too long for me to feel invested in the story.
I did not like the female voices from the narrator.
I may continue with the series but will not be rushing for book 2.
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- Onyajay
- 11-11-2020
Boring
Probably a young adult book. Couldn’t make it past 3 hrs. Good characters but not enough story early on. Great idea, I wish it ha do been better. And the narrator too slow. I had to speed him up.
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- Anonymous User
- 24-04-2023
recommended
One of my friends recommended this to me a while ago and I should have listened to it then. I loved every second of it. all the characters were just real.
now on to the other two books and figuring out how to make that coat for a cosplay
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- S.A.
- 05-12-2023
Not the narrator for this story!!
A very good premise and well written but I, like many others could barely tolerate the narration. The narrator
Has a fine voice and accent but he made every single character other than Kel sound like a caricature of an evil old man or woman. Literally every charactorisation was awful. Not sure I could listen to another one despite wondering “what’s next?”.
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- Aussie
- 30-05-2024
good story, awful narration
The narrator has two character voices interchangeable among many characters. Is it an old women? A villain? A teenage boy? Who can tell?
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- Anne
- 02-07-2023
escapist easy listen
Good premise and interesting ideas. The two main characters are vibrant and I wanted to spend time with them. I like this narrator but he doesn't bring it to life as much as it needed. I found increasing the speed helped. If you want an easy listen and a bit of magic it's a good choice. If you want a more developed book and more mature ideas, I love her other books: Gallant (traditional gothic and brilliant) and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (beautiful and totally original).
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