He’s already forgetting all of it, the magic, the people.” “I started thinking about the heinously sad ending of Peter Pan. While hiking in England’s Lake District one day, she recounts, she began thinking about immortality. It was February and freezing, she recounts, and her grandmother had dementia.
“Those were the three most formative months of my life,” she says, shaking her head at the memory. The idea for the novel first struck when Schwab was 24 and living in “a literal Home Depot shed” in an ex–prison warden’s yard in Liverpool, England. It’s an ambitious historical fantasy that shimmers with shades of The Picture of Dorian Grey and Peter Pan, while covering 300 years and spanning from medieval France-not far from where Schwab is now-to modern-day New York City. “I’m coming up on my 10-year anniversary of my first book,” she says, “but in some form I’ve been working on Addie since then.”Īddie LaRue centers on a woman who makes a Faustian bargain to live forever, but soon realizes her deal with the devil comes with a curse-she can never be remembered. 6, Tor), the publishing process should be old hat for Schwab. She has published 17 titles (plus comics and graphic novels) since making her YA debut with 2011’s The Near Witch (Disney).Ī decade into her career and about to launch her next book, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Oct. Schwab has given us a gem of a tale…This is a book to treasure.Now a frequent bestseller, Schwab, who’s notably prolific, is known for successful fantasy series like the Darker Shade of Magic trilogy and the Villains duology. To save all of the worlds, they’ll first need to stay alive.Ī Darker Shade of Magic has all the hallmarks of a classic work of fantasy. Now perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn.
She first robs him, then saves him from a deadly enemy, and finally forces Kell to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.Īfter an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey London and runs into Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see. Kell was raised in Arnes -Red London -and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George III in the dullest of Londons, the one without any magic left to see.
Kell is one of the last Antari -magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black. A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V.E.
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