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“He was one barely powered magician with nothing but a tendency to let books replace people in his life.”

A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1) by Freya Marske

August 5, 2022 by narfna Leave a Comment

This is, what, like, the tenth book this year I have not wanted to review because I liked it too much? I hate that. Plus also I read it almost two months ago so the details of what I wanted to say about it have escaped me. Mostly, I really, really liked it! This book takes place in a world where there is a magical secret society hidden in plain sight, and one of our main characters, Robin Blyth, is accidentally assigned to a magical […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: #fantasy, A Marvellous Light, fantasy romance, Freya Marske, LGBTQIA, m-m, narfna, Regency Romance, Romance, The Last Binding

narfna's CBR14 Review No:120 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: #fantasy, A Marvellous Light, fantasy romance, Freya Marske, LGBTQIA, m-m, narfna, Regency Romance, Romance, The Last Binding ·
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Meh Valentine’s Reading

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

February 14, 2022 by CoffeeShopReader Leave a Comment

I decided to do some Valentine’s Day reading; I figured A Marvellous Light might be a safer bet than usual (I’m not a romance person) because a writer of a romantic novel that I did like had a positive blurb on the back. The basic premise has a lot of familiar elements: two people are forced to work together, don’t exactly get along, are forced into an investigation (how to cure Robin’s curse, and what happened to Robin’s predecessor who seems to have gone missing), […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Romance Tagged With: A Marvellous Light, alternate Victorian, Freya Marske, LGBTQ romance, magic, mystery

CoffeeShopReader's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fantasy, Romance · Tags: A Marvellous Light, alternate Victorian, Freya Marske, LGBTQ romance, magic, mystery ·
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