Hannah
The world building here is just perfect. The idea of magic as visible threads (to some) allowing control of a portion or all elements with four Londons that used to me connected until one of the London's magic grew contaminated had me captivated. While we follow multiple perspectives across the London's, my favorite perspective was Tes - a tinkerer and teenage girl in hiding from her family who can manipulate the threads of magic to fix and modify their spells. The was the most pure headspace among a whole cast of morally grey characters who are at times difficult to love.
I did have a feeling while reading that there was so much backstory and history that you could fill a whole earlier novel in the series only to discover after reading that this book is indeed set in the same world as a whole other series, Shades of Magic. I would read that series first if I were to do a re-read.
The world building here is just perfect. The idea of magic as visible threads (to some) allowing control of a portion or all elements with four Londons that used to me connected until one of the London's magic grew contaminated had me captivated. While we follow multiple perspectives across the London's, my favorite perspective was Tes - a tinkerer and teenage girl in hiding from her family who can manipulate the threads of magic to fix and modify their spells. The was the most pure headspace among a whole cast of morally grey characters who are at times difficult to love.
I did have a feeling while reading that there was so much backstory and history that you could fill a whole earlier novel in the series only to discover after reading that this book is indeed set in the same world as a whole other series, Shades of Magic. I would read that series first if I were to do a re-read.