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A Sleight of Shadows

By: Kat Howard
Narrated by: Madeleine Maby
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 Return to Kat Howard’s Alex Award­–winning world begun in An Unkindness of Magicians as Sydney struggles with the reality of losing her powers—and the lengths she’ll go to get her magic back.

After taking down the source of corruption of the Unseen World, Sydney is left with almost no magical ability. Feeling estranged from herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of the world’s most dangerous magicians. Unfortunately, she needs to do this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her into who she was, the place she sacrificed everything to destroy, is rebuilding itself.

“The House of Shadows sits on Bones. All of the sacrifices, all of the magicians who died in Shadows, they’re buried beneath the foundations. Bones hold magic.”

The magic of the Unseen World is acting strangely, faltering, bleeding out from the edges. Determined to keep the House of Shadows from returning to power and to defeat the magicians who want nothing more than to have it back, Sydney turns to extremes in a desperate attempt to regain her sacrificed magic. She is forced to decide what she will give up and what she will lose and whether what must be destroyed is not on the House of Shadows, but the Unseen World itself.

World Fantasy Award finalist Kat Howard has written a sequel that asks how you have a happily ever after in a world that doesn’t want it, where the cost of that happiness may be too much to bear. Dark Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Magic Magic Users Paranormal

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"...the character of Sydney is clearly and consistently depicted; Maby gives her a fierce focus and a single-minded dedication to her task."
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I fully fell in love with the first book and was desperate to get back into the unseen world again. I don’t think this book meets the very high standard the author set from the first with all its mystery as there is less to work out in this and less characters to get to know. I would have liked more for Lara to do but I’ll happily read the next if another is coming

Pretty decent follow up

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overall I enioyed this reading a lot, even though I think this book was not really necessary. Book 1, An Unkindness of Magicians, had a good ending, and book 2 didn't add up much to the story, not in worldbuilding nor character development. Nonetheless, I had missed these characters, specially Sydney, so I was glad I had one more book in this world to read

fast-paced and highly enjoyable

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