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Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and 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

Picked it up again today
I love it, but I have a hard time finishing it 😅🫤

I should be able to get to this on Saturday, i don't have any BRs planned that day and hopefully i don't fall too far behind on others

Re- started it
Chapter 1
(view spoiler)[ I liked Reggie (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 4
(view spoiler)[I hope the culprits get their just punishment. Why can't they look for it themselves anyways? (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 6 and 7
(view spoiler)[I hate Edwin's family and Walt is the worst of them (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 11
(view spoiler)[I like the concept of magic in this world. How it works. That there are different approaches to it by countries. (hide spoiler)]

Hope I can finish this today.

Chapter 14
(view spoiler)[You deserve it, Edwin (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 15
(view spoiler)[ That scene was so... *lesigh* (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 19
(view spoiler)[ Maud starts to get on my nerves. Can't explain why, she just does (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 24
(view spoiler)[ Go to hell, Walter 🤬 (hide spoiler)]

Chapter 27
(view spoiler)[ Robin groaned. "I suggest a daring stealth adventure, and you have to ruin it by telling me it's going to involve books."
Poor Robin 🤣 (hide spoiler)]

Finally finished.
Can't tell why it took me sooooo long.
(view spoiler)[I love Edwin, Robin and Mrs. Morrisey. And I love the historic accuracy. She could have built a different kind of magic society, that was ahead of its time, where women were equal to men, but she didn't. And I love it. It makes the magical society more integrated into the real world.
And poor Reggie. I loved him😭🪦
The rest I din't care for or just pissed me off and I hope Maud doesn't appear in any other volume, because I can't stand her. Don't know why. But In my head, she has a really shrill and hysteric voice. (hide spoiler)]