Week 27 Review: A Marvellous Light

From Goodreads:

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.

My Review:
It was really fantastic to read this book! I adored getting to know these two, and watch them fall in love while they were dealing with an unscrupulous group of magic users and figuring out their plan and working on a way to thwart them.

The beginning was a tiny bit hard to get into, between the accents and the getting to know these characters and this world, but once I got into it, I understood what was going on much better. Oh, and I'm glad I kept going, because it was a really adorable read! 

We alternated between these two guy's perspectives, one who has grown up with magic but a limited about and another who is just getting introduced to this world. That they're both learning and exploring new to them boundaries was really great!

The methods of the bad guys was infuriating! To put that level of control over someone, that's barbaric. Plus the murder, but a good deal of bad guys kill. It's the method and the reasoning that makes it so awful. Like oh, that ending, that was intense and emotional!

This was a really wonderful read and I can't wait to continue on with the series! 

Author: Freya Marske 
Series: The Last Binding #1
Read: July 10th, 2024
Source: Library 
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a DAC Book, Historical Fiction 2024 Book and a Prequel & Sequel Challenge 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Published: October 21st 2021

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars