a declaration of the rights of magicians a novel

They took the men and older boys into the ship first. They would feed it to her on the first day. They only wanted her to work for them in their own country. They didn’t want to feed her to their hollow world-which was called a ship and was used for traveling oceans. The ghosts were men, white men, and they were from a country over the sea. The man who sold her told her that it wasn’t true. The people brought to them were placed under evil magic, so that their minds fell asleep and their bodies belonged to the ghosts. The ghosts lived in a hollow world, they said, that roamed the sea and swallowed people up.

Her brother and his friends had told stories about the ghosts that came and took people away.

When she saw the blanched white faces and pale eyes of the men to whom she was to be sold, her attempts at bravery broke, and she burst into tears. She never knew what happened to her parents. Her brother yelled to her to run, but she stumbled on the ground outside, and a pair of hands seized her. She and her brother were alone in the house when strangers broke in, armed with muskets and knives. Parry, check out The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep.

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.

A declaration of the rights of magicians a novel