Not to mention there’s a good two millenia plus of development before all this supposedly takes place. I don’t know about you, but I’d have thought that, in a world with magic, history would not happen to unfurl in exactly the same manner as our world. About the only thing that changed about it was exact motivations for things. But when I say “almost exact retelling”, I do mean it quite literally. Now, you might think that doesn’t sound so bad.
I was quickly disillusioned, and then dragged myself through the rest of the book, in the vain hope that something might actually happen.Ī Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is an almost exact retelling of history as we know it, but with vampires, necromancers, and other magic users. I say 500, because for the first 50 or so pages, I thought I might be interested in it. This book, for me, was approximately 500 pages of boredom.
Parry, check out The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep.CWs: graphic descriptions of slavery, gore, murder This is a knockout."― Publishers Weekly (starred review)įor more from H. "A witty, riveting historical fantasy.Parry has a historian's eye for period detail and weaves real figures from history-including Robespierre and Toussaint L'Ouverture-throughout her poetic tale of justice, liberation, and dark magic. "A rich, sprawling epic full of history and magic, Declaration is Jonathan Strange with international politics and vampires.
Praise for A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians: And it will require the combined efforts of revolutionaries, magicians, and abolitionists to unmask this hidden enemy before the whole world falls to darkness and chaos. It is the Age of Enlightenment - of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for a revolution in France, to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic amongst commoners in Britain and abolition throughout its colonies overseas.īut amidst all of the upheaval of the early modern world, there is an unknown force inciting all of human civilization into violent conflict. A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians is a genre-defying story of magic, war, and the struggle for freedom in the early modern world.
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