A review by matchamaker
A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

3.25

The first book of Marske’s Last Binding trilogy. I was underwhelmed by this trilogy as a whole, though the last book was quite good. The sense of time and place I enjoy in historical fiction doesn’t really develop until then. Some of the character traits and interpersonal dynamics in this series are… uncannily similar to Allie Therin’s Magic in Manhattan and Roaring Twenties Magic series, which I loved and did hope/expect Marske’s trilogy would fill the same niche, but the number of similarities—even the silhouette styled covers are alike—was kind of off-putting.