Blog Tour | A Marvellous Light

Hello, I am so excited to be hosting a stop on the awesome blog tour for A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske! Thank you so much Black Crow PR for having me and providing a copy of the book!! I adored this novel so much, its an enchanting and lyrical read!

Red White & Royal Blue meets Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell in debut author Freya Marske’s A Marvellous Light, featuring an Edwardian England full of magic, contracts, and conspiracies. 

Robin Blyth has more than enough bother in his life. He’s struggling to be a good older brother, a responsible employer, and the harried baronet of a seat gutted by his late parents’ excesses. When an administrative mistake sees him named the civil service liaison to a hidden magical society, he discovers what’s been operating beneath the unextraordinary reality he’s always known.

Now Robin must contend with the beauty and danger of magic, an excruciating deadly curse, and the alarming visions of the future that come with it—not to mention Edwin Courcey, his cold and prickly counterpart in the magical bureaucracy, who clearly wishes Robin were anyone and anywhere else.

Robin’s predecessor has disappeared, and the mystery of what happened to him reveals unsettling truths about the very oldest stories they’ve been told about the land they live on and what binds it. Thrown together and facing unexpected dangers, Robin and Edwin discover a plot that threatens every magician in the British Isles—and a secret that more than one person has already died to keep. -Goodreads

My Thoughts on A Marvellous Light

Huge thanks to Black Crow PR and Tor UK for organising this tour, and inviting me to be a part of it! A Marvellous Light is one of my most anticipated releases of 2021, so I was very excited when the email dropped into my inbox!

This is an enchanting novel of magic, mystery and romance in a perfect Edwardian England setting! This is all of my favourite things combined into a book, so I had very high hopes going in! I am so glad to say that my hopes were filled and more! This is an amazing book, I was fully swept up in the story throughout. A Marvellous Light doesn’t have the fastest plot, it is definitely a character driven story, but despite that it didn’t feel at all slow to me. A combination of brilliant writing style and really loveable main characters meant I felt the novel sped along at a good pace throughout.

Special mention goes to the two main characters of this book. Edwin and Robin are the perfect combo of grumpy and sunshine characters who slowly find themselves falling in love with each other. They are two wonderful characters who I truly fell in love with, and I loved every moment of their blossoming romance through the book. I am very excited to hear this is the first in a trilogy because I definitely need more delightful content from those two characters!

There is a mixed bag of family relationships in this novel. Robin and his sister and very close and have a strong relationship, which seems all the stronger when contrasted with Edwin and his frankly horrible siblings and their friends. I really disliked them a lot, they were bullies and they treated Edwin very badly. No spoilers, but the comeuppance at the end was awesome!!!

Overall I loved this book mostly for the relationship between the two main characters. I was enthralled by the magical writing style and the beautiful romance! I would highly recommend this book to all! Thank you UK Tor and Black Crow PR for organising the blog tour and inviting me along!

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