Book description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and set in the world of A Darker Shade of Magic, V. E. Schwab opens a new door into perilous adventure and tangled schemes with The Fragile Threads of Power.
Once, there were four worlds,…
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1 author picked The Fragile Threads of Power as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I absolutely adored this book’s preceding trilogy, The Shades of Magic series, and so this book felt like coming home.
It was a love letter to the characters I had grown to adore and missed, and it was a thrilling introduction to a host of new characters. Because there was a sense of returning, it was easy to feel comfortable settling back into this world, but in typical Schwab style, she quickly pulls the rug from under you as new depth and breadth is explored both in the magic system and in the four-tiered world.
Plus, she’s introduced a tiny…
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