![]() The four main characters, plus Fina, a resourceful African woman enslaved in Jamaica and awakening to her own power during the events of Toussaint L’Ouverture’s revolt in Haiti, are all intensely moral, thoughtful figures struggling to manage the tides of Revolution. Magic in this alternate reality has been thus controlled since the 14th century, when the “Vampire Wars” threatened to destroy Europe. ![]() Parry imagines historical figures William Pitt, Maximilien Robespierre, William Wilberforce, and Camille Desmoulins as tireless advocates for the rights of commoners to use the magical skills acquired genetically, but restricted through a system of childhood testing and shock bracelets administered by the Knights Templar. The concept of this ambitious fantasy historical works neatly: substitute “magic” for “freedom,” and the French Revolution and the Abolition movement in England dovetail with a sprawling epic about the struggles of magicians to use abilities that are only allowed to aristocrats in this version of the 18th century. ![]() ![]() A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians (The Shadow Histories 1) ![]()
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