A Darker Shade of Magic: ★★★★★
A Gathering of Shadows:
A Conjuring of Light:

Y'all

Y'all

This was fucking good

I'm so glad that I finally read this, wow. I'm so in love with this book. Portal fantasy is my favourite thing in the entire world, so I knew I was going to like A Darker Shade of Magic. I was not anticipating that I would love it as much as I do.

The magic system is so fantastic! I think that's probably my favourite part of it (aside from the fact that it's portal fantasy, since we've already established my undying love for the genre as a whole). It's so interesting the way the magic was done and I really hope it's explained more throughout the rest of the series, I'm desperate to learn more about it!

I'm also madly in love with Red London; Lila's first time seeing it and the descriptions of the festivities had my heart racing with excitement, I can't even explain how much I adore this entire world(s). I like White London a lot too, I'm really intrigued by the absolute madness of that London and hope to see more of it later, but Red London completely stole my heart. Which is actually my only gripe with this book: I wish the descriptions were a bit more drawn out. I feel like Lila didn't really get to be excited about being in a different world because they had to get right to all the action. And don't get me wrong, I love the action, but I wish there was just a bit more time spent with Lila marvelling in the splendour of Red London. But otherwise, this book was fucking incredible and I will be getting to the next books as soon as I possibly can. There's so much potential for where this series could go and I'm beyond excited to find out what happens next!

(Ok but how cool would it be if Lila became some kind of pirate villain and she and Kell had to fight to the death in the finale? Fuck I'd be so down for that. Why do I always want main characters to become villains? Something is wrong with me lmfao I'm not mad about it though)