The Fragile Threads of Power

The Fragile Threads of Power is the first book in the Threads of Power trilogy by V.E. Schwab, a sequel to the Shades of Magic series:

Setting
Set in the world of the Shades of Magic series, but seven years after the events of A Conjuring of Light
Characters
Introduces new characters, while also continuing the stories of fan favorites like Kell, Lila, Rhy, and Alucard
Plot
The book follows two royals from different empires as they face similar struggles to keep their crowns. A girl with a unique magical ability comes into possession of a device that could change the fate of all four worlds.
Themes
Explores themes of deception, the growth and change of magic, and how people can use ingenuity and creativity to challenge the status quo

Once, there were four worlds, nestled like pages in a book, each pulsing with fantastical power, and connected by a single city: London. Until the magic grew too fast, and forced the worlds to seal the doors between them in a desperate gamble to protect their own. The few magicians who could still open the doors grew more rare as time passed and now, only three Antari are known in recent memory―Kell Maresh of Red London, Delilah Bard of Grey London, and Holland Vosijk, of White London.

But barely a glimpse of them have been seen in the last seven years―and a new Antari named Kosika has appeared in White London, taking the throne in Holland’s absence. The young queen is willing to feed her city with blood, including her own―but her growing religious fervor has the potential to drown them instead.

And back in Red London, King Rhy Maresh is threatened by a rising rebellion, one determined to correct the balance of power by razing the throne entirely.

Amidst this tapestry of old friends and new enemies, a girl with an unusual magical ability comes into possession of a device that could change the fate of all four worlds.

Her name is Tes, and she’s the only one who can bring them together―or unravel it all.

VICTORIA “V. E.” SCHWAB is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty books, including the acclaimed Shades universe, the Villains series, the City of Ghosts series, Gallant, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue and The Fragile Threads of Power. When not haunting Paris streets or trudging up English hillsides, she can be found in Edinburgh, Scotland, tucked in the corner of a coffee shop, dreaming up monsters.

Obras autoconclusiva

The Near Witch (2011). Hyperion Books.
Spirit Animals (Fall of the Beasts) Book 2: Broken Ground (2015).

Saga Monsters of Verity

Una Canción Salvaje (This Savage Song, 2016).
Un Dueto Oscuro (Our Dark Duet, 2017).

Saga The Archived

El Archivo (The Archived, 2013). Disney-Hyperion.
El Vacío (The Unbound, 2014). Disney-Hyperion.

Saga Everyday Angel

Everyday Angel #1: New Beginnings (2014). Scholastic.
Everyday Angel #2: Second Chances (2014). Scholastic.
Everyday Angel #3: Last Wishes (2014). Scholastic.

Como V. E. Schwab

Saga Vicious

Una Obsesión Perversa (Vicious, 2013).
Una Venganza Mortal (Vengeful, 2018).

Saga Sombras de Magia

Una magia más oscura (A Darker Shade of Magic, 2015).
Concilio de sombras (A Gathering of Shadows, 2016).
Conjuro de luz (A Conjuring of Light, 2017).

Obras autoconclusivas

La vida invisible de Addie LaRue (2020).

Gallant (2022).

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4.04 Goodreads review.

If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It’s a book – an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door .

What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.

But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals – individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons – a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .

Because some doors should never be opened.

4.03 Good reads review

In this spellbinding debut novel, two estranged half-sisters tasked with guarding their family’s library of magical books must work together to unravel a deadly secret at the heart of their collection–a tale of familial loyalty and betrayal, and the pursuit of magic and power.

For generations, the Kalotay family has guarded a collection of ancient and rare books. Books that let a person walk through walls or manipulate the elements–books of magic that half-sisters Joanna and Esther have been raised to revere and protect.

All magic comes with a price, though, and for years the sisters have been separated. Esther has fled to a remote base in Antarctica to escape the fate that killed her own mother, and Joanna’s isolated herself in their family home in Vermont, devoting her life to the study of these cherished volumes. But after their father dies suddenly while reading a book Joanna has never seen before, the sisters must reunite to preserve their family legacy. In the process, they’ll uncover a world of magic far bigger and more dangerous than they ever imagined, and all the secrets their parents kept hidden; secrets that span centuries, continents, and even other libraries . . .

3.81 Goodreads review

A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can’t stay buried and the sinister house that sits at the crossroads of it all.

Eden, Kentucky, is just another dying, bad-luck town, known only for the legend of E. Starling, the reclusive nineteenth-century author and illustrator who wrote The Underland–and disappeared. Before she vanished, Starling House appeared. But everyone agrees that it’s best to let the uncanny house―and its last lonely heir, Arthur Starling―go to rot.

Opal knows better than to mess with haunted houses or brooding men, but an unexpected job offer might be a chance to get her brother out of Eden. Too quickly, though, Starling House starts to feel dangerously like something she’s never had: a home.

As sinister forces converge on Starling House, Opal and Arthur are going to have to make a dire choice to dig up the buried secrets of the past and confront their own fears, or let Eden be taken over by literal nightmares.

If Opal wants a home, she’ll have to fight for it.