Thought you might learn where Kell came from and the history of that knife with the 'KL' on it? Think again and have a few competitors from the Essen Tasch die needlessly. The Big Bad is banished but instead of tying all the threads together to give us any kind of closure we are given a repetitive book with way too much death. With much fanfare but without much satisfaction for this reader. Whose plan will work? Because with these stakes failure equals death.Īnd we come to the end. While the three Antari go in search of their best hope against Osaron, the King, the Aven Essen, the Prince, the Veskans, the Faroans, and the competitors all attempt their own plans to beat Osaron. A device that was last seen on a floating black market, a market that might just hold the true key to defeating Osaron.

That interest makes Kell, Holland, and Lila realize that perhaps they are the only way to destroy him, along with a device rumored to be capable of draining and transferring magic. Their first attempt fails, Osaron showing far more interest in this new Antari then his previous Antari vessel. Having so many loyal supplicants Osaron abandons Holland and Kell thinks this new prisoner of the crown could work as a lure to destroy the oshoc. But a plan needs to be formed before people get desperate. The priests of the London Sanctuary place wards all around the Soner Rast in an effort to keep out Osaron's influence and for the moment it is holding. Soon those competitors and their entourages will be the only people not under Osaron's spell. In the palace the competitors are celebrating the end of the Essen Tasch. The Isle turns black and a thick fog creeps through the streets. Those who do not submit to his insinuating call will be killed. Arnes is ripe with magic and the Isle pulses with power and within minutes of his arrival Osaron has the city bowing at his feet. The Antari thought it was a chance for his world to thrive, instead it was Osaron's chance to become a God again, but not in Holland's dying London, in the vital London, in Red London.

Osaron, the oshoc, the demon made of magic that destroyed Black London escaped his prison using Holland.

Book Review - Kelly Jones's Murder, Magic and What.

Book Review - Heather Rose Jones's Mother of Souls.

Conjuring of light