As the headstrong, viscous heroine of the tale she never sacrifices her strength or resolve during this development, Schwab maintaining a strong female protagonist throughout the entire series. She grows up, takes more responsibility for herself and learns to trust and believe in her friends. Lila, our fiesty heroine, changes significantly, showing a dramatically different character to the one who left Kell in the first novel. She carefully crafts a tale of love, mystery and adversity, with the perfect balance to keeps readers captivated with suspense, dreading the next scenes, and all the while falling in love with her exceptional characters all over again.Ĭharacter development is somewhat stifled in this novel as the world faces peril once again, but it is still prevalent as characters remain core to the plot and pacing. VE Schwab’s enchanting writing has only improved throughout the series, drawing the reader into this final adventure. They form slowly, rolled between the hands of time until their edges smooth, until the saying of the story gives enough weight to the words-to the memories-to keep them rolling on their own.īut all stories start somewhere, and that night, as Rhy Maresh walked through the streets of London, a new myth was taking shape.“ They do not spring forth whole into the world. But when Red London falls to the curse that destroyed Black London before the doors were sealed a small band of desperate magicians must attempt to save their dying worlds, regardless of their differences.

My reviews for the previous two books, which this review contains spoilers for, can be found at these links: A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows.Ī Conjuring of Light picks off where A Gathering of Shadows concludes: Kell trapped in another London, his only hope Lila, who may be an Antari, as the prince of Red London lays dying. This is a review for the final book in the series: A Conjuring of Light. VE Schwab’s popular adult fantasy series, Shades of Magic, has been a hit with readers from across the world.

A conjuring of light by ve schwab