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V.E. Schwab returns to form in the third book of her Shades of Magic series. A Conjuring of Light picks up at the cliffhanger ending of A Gathering of Shadows (2016). I was a little let down by the slow pace, light tone and abrupt end to Gathering, but Conjuring recaptures the, ahem, magic from series debut, A Darker Shade of Magic (2015).

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The pace of 'A Gathering of Shadows' is slow up until the final pages when we get, in V.E. Schwab’s words, “the dreaded cliffhanger.” This makes it difficult to assess 'A Gathering of Shadows' for we won't know whether Schwab succeeded or failed until (at least) the third book in the series. But I’m certainly going to read it to find out.

'A Darker Shade of Magic' is a great adventure story with fully-realized characters in an intriguing world—or, more accurately, in intriguing worlds.

N. K. Jemisin’s The Killing Moon challenges a number of fantasy conventions. Her world is fully fleshed, with complicated political, cultural and social structures.

Magicians, by author-game designer Kyle Simons, is a new and unique RPG (role-playing game) system and book designed to help students learn the Korean language while playing a game that takes place in a Harry Potter-like world populated with magic and monsters.