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Title: A Darker Shade of Magic (Shades of Magic #1)

By: V.E. Schwab

Pages: 400

Published: February 24th, 2015

By: Tor Books

Genre: YA|Fantasy|Magic

You can buy it HERE: Book Depository

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. 

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.

Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see. It’s a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences, which Kell is now seeing firsthand.

After an exchange goes awry, Kell escapes to Grey…

Narrator: Bahni Turpin

Series: Legacy of Orïsha #1

Publisher: MacMillan Audio

Pub. Date: 2018

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

Length: 18 hours, 9 minutes

Rating: 4 of 5 Stars

After reading very little young adult fantasy for a while, it was wonderful to read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi, read by Bahni Turpin. Inspired by West African mythology, Adeyemi created a world where the magic-users, Magi, have been oppressed and magic has been almost wiped off the face of the earth. Zélie remembers what the monarchy did to her family and her people and when magic disappeared. Now that she has the chance to bring magic back, she has to outrun the crown prince with the help of her brother and a princess. She must also gain control of her powers if she has any hope of bringing it back.

After I found that I loved Bahni Turpin reading