#The Fragile Threads of Power

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Running Close to the Wind by @ariaste

In this queer pirate fantasy, Avra Helvaçi has accidentally stolen the single most expensive secret in the world. To avoid capture, he flees to the open sea, where only his on-again, off-again ex aka pirate Captain Teveri az-Ḥaffār can help him survive, profit, and become a legend.

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The Fragile Threads of Power by V. E. Schwab

Once there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power and connected by a single city: London. After a desperate attempt to prevent corruption and ruin in the four Londons, there are only three. Now the worlds are going to collide anew—brought to a dangerous precipice by the discoveries of three remarkable magicians.

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I’ve only reached page 100, but Kell’s new issues with his self-worth and self-image is so damnably good and horrifying. He and everyone else around him had put him into this little box, only seeing him as Antari and his skill with magic (which, arguably, isn’t all that great, which is hinted at often, but not the point here). And to have his ability not only become painful, but instead be taunting him, a well ready to drink from but the water poisoned, rather than be gone altogether. It would be easier if he were magicless. Because then he’d be dead, and it would be easier to be dead.

It’s actually haunting to read as he tears himself apart over it because he really wasn’t allowed to have anything else, to be anything else. And he was complacent with that, since magic really is the most important thing here. To have this one thing you love and revolve your entire being around, to have the world revere and fear you for it, your one defining feature, not only be stripped from you, but make it painful to use??? Makes me want to puke.

Which is also why Lila is the perfect person for him, because although she’s lost many a thing, and hasn’t necessarily had something she revolved around be taken, she’s still familiar with grief and loss and, more importantly, getting the fuck back up. Kell can be really pathetic and self-pitying and, really, it’s like he loves to beat himself up—which is part of why I adore him—but yes, he needs Lila to kick some sense into him, not someone to coddle him.

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The Illustrations from the Owlcrate editions of the Shades of Magic trilogy.

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kell probably thought this after the essen tasch

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this is important to me

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Pain reminds us that we are alive or something I guess

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Shades of Magic Dashboard Simulator

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rhy maresh was 19??? he should’ve been at the club

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i’m going on vacation during the essen tasch but someone tells me how it goes

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THE DARKNESS

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huh?

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the darkness

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oh ok.

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HOW DO YOU KNOW WHEN THE SAROWS IS COMING IS COMING IS COMING IS COMING ABOARD WHEN THE WIND DIES AWAY BUT STILL SINGS IN YOUR EARS IN YOUR EARS IN YOUR HEAD IN YOUR BLOOD IN YOUR BONES

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arnesian sailors will be like i know a place and take you aboard their ship where their first mate (?) only speaks high royal and can use blood magic 🙄

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what everyone thinks bone magic is:

what it actually is:

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the king and his consort.

officially finished all of the darker shades of magic books available and i love these two. i am in dire NEED of the rest of the series. waiting is rough lol.

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“There is nowhere you go that I cannot follow.”

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(Spoiler for ADSOM)

Kell being the last person to figure out Lila was an Antari will never not be funny to me. Tieren, he could stomach. Alucard, that was rough. But I just know Holland sent him over the edge 😭 Like even the readers got here first, babe.

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#1 NYT bestselling author V.E. Schwab returns to the dazzling worlds of Shades of Magic with a fantastical, perilous, and intrigue-tangled new series-starter: The Fragile Threads of Power,with commissioned artwork of Kell and Lila by lasq.draws.

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Once, the four worlds sat nestled like pages in a book, connected with fantastical power to a single city: London. But the magic pulsed. It grew too fast, and the doors between worlds were sealed in a desperate gamble at protection.

The few magicians able to open these doors grew rarer as time passed, and now only three are known in recent memory. Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk of White London have hardly been glimpsed for the last seven years. A new magician rises to claim the throne of White London: She is Kosika, who burns with religious fervor and will feed her city with blood, including her own.

And back in Red London, King Rhy Maresh is threatened by a rising rebellion, one that promises to correct the power by razing the throne entirely.

These two royals from very different empires face mirror struggles: Keep their crowns. Keep their heads. And amidst a tapestry of old friends and new enemies, a girl with unusual magic comes into possession of a device that could change the fate of all four worlds.

Her name is Tes, and she will bring the worlds together, or unravel it all.

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Whatever they have, that’s what I want.

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Rhy + Lila = In laws solidarity

Kell + Alucard = In laws hostility

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2023 books a darker shade of magic by v.e. schwab (reread)

Magic was a living thing---that, everyone knew---but to Kell it felt like more, like a friend, like family. It was, after all, a part of him (much more than it was a part of most) and he couldn't help feeling like it knew what he was saying, what he was feeling, not only when he summoned it, but always, in every heartbeat and every breath. He was, after all, Antari.