Oh my goodness, A Gathering of Shadows has me thrown. I absolutely adored the first book, A Darker Shade of Magic. And I actually took a break between reading that and this, the sequel. It was less than a week. But, I still felt like I was seeing old friends again, as I started this.

If you haven’t read the first book, I suggest you do so before “reading more,” because I’m about to spoil literally everything.

At the end of Darker Shade, Lila (our Grey London gal) was leaving. She and Kell had just saved Red London, killed the king and queen of White London, and shipped Holland’s seemingly dead body off to Black London with a super dangerous piece of magic. They had saved Rhy, Kell’s brother (and Prince of Red London). But, only by binding his life to Kell’s. This book starts four months after that.