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A Conjuring of Light

Written by: V. E. Schwab
Narrated by: Kate Reading, Michael Kramer
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Publisher's Summary

Londons fall and kingdoms rise while darkness sweeps the Maresh Empire, and the fraught balance of magic blossoms into dangerous territory while heroes struggle. The direct sequel to A Gathering of Shadows, and the final audiobook in the Shades of Magic epic fantasy series, A Conjuring of Light sees the newly minted New York Times best-selling author V. E. Schwab reach a thrilling conclusion concerning the fate of beloved protagonists - and old foes.

Shades of Magic series
1. A Darker Shade of Magic
2. A Gathering of Shadows
3. A Conjuring of Light

©2017 Victoria Schwab (P)2017 Macmillan Audio

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Better than meh, worse than good

I loved the male voice in this book, but the woman... She kept elonging words, putting emphasis on things that didn't even make sense. I kept having to put her parts faster so I wouldn't feel the need to roll my eyes every few seconds. Also, where was Leila's British accent?
The plot was meh and the writing was a bit much...
Maybe high fantasy isn't for me...

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Zero Payoffs as a Series.

Just finished book three if only to prove to myself that this series takes forever to go nowhere. Payoffs are few and far between, painfully obvious mysteries take two books to be addressed, characters experience next to no growth, and random artifacts and spells solve most problems. Characters who get added in to the series have next to zero payoff as well which is frustrating and mean that book 2 and 3 are mostly a waste of time

It’s just … not very good.

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Twice as long as it needed to be, maybe more

The performances were good, although one character lost her prior accent. The story drags often with too many repetitive themes and unnecessary dialogues.

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I love the first two books but

This one really dragged. I also thought it was weird that the female narrator totally scrapped Lila's British accent in this book. In the first book, her accent was cockney, the second one, more 'high royal' but by the time this book came out, she totally had no accent.

********SPOILERS BELOW *******

I really didn't care that much about Holland's backstory or Rye's life. They could have cut most of that out and made more of it about their trip on the water to the black floating market (coolest part). Also.. Why did Kel burn that paper with the remembering spell? Did the author not care to talk about the main character's backstory? But why go into everyone else's backstory? We also didn't ever learn about Lila's origin or how Maris knew her. It was all so stupid... Why didn't they find out about their lives and parents? I mean, the whole notion that the family they gave now is more important than their origins is pretty weak. Sorry... Weak writing. Story was tight until this book. Basically game of throned the whole thing. Fail.



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A good end to the trilogy

An excellent trilogy with a great ending. The Kate Reading was terrible, but she improved in the third book.

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Loved the story!

This was my first V.E. Schwab book and definitely not the last! I loved her writing, her story telling, how she describes each world, the characters. Everything was amazing (story wise). I didn't however, really enjoy the voice actors. When it came to dialogue between the characters, the voice actor sounded the same so it was kind of hard to distinguish/imagine the characters coming to life since they would sound exactly the same.

Overall, the story was amazing. The audiobook was okay. #audible1

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Good series

Entertaining magical story. Interesting concept of parallel words with different views towards magical beings.
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Really enjoyed!

A perfect light & fun book to listen to on long drives && a really great end to the series (although I was happy to hear Schwab has a spin off in the works!!) #Audible1

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thoroughly enjoyed it

I really enjoyed this story. The unraveling of backstories. The growth of the characters. But what happens NEXT?!

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