There are three Londons. Or, four, except one was destroyed long ago.
Kell, one of the last Antarai, is Red London’s ambassador to its neighbors (Gray and White). But when Kell inadvertently smuggles a dark and dangerous magical object to Red London, he must team up with Delilah Bard, a Gray Londoner who is more than meets the eye, to stop the dark magic from devouring his world.
A Darker Shade of Magic is a portal-fantasy with lovable characters and fun adventures and dark, creepy (really dark, really creepy) villains. I love Schwab’s style of writing, and this book somehow managed to be fun and a bit light while also being dark and dealing with some pretty serious bad guys.
Content:
Sexual: PG in this book (a few tame kisses), but it escalates in the later books of the series. Red London is morally loose when it comes to sexuality, and there is one sex scene in the third book.
Violence: PG-13. Brief torture (not too graphic) and murder performed by the villains. Again, it gets much darker in book 3, but I would still consider it PG-13.
Language: PG-13. Some fantasy swear words, also some of our swear words.
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