It's the thing I really want to talk about. So pod listeners longtime will have heard me before talk about how much I loved the Schwab's darker shades of magic books, which is a trilogy, which I just love too much. I have read them more than three times I've read them so often. They really speak to something in me, which takes me back to the fantasy novels that I loved when I was a teenager. I think I read them with that almost slightly childlike enthusiasm, and I love the books in themselves. But I feel like perhaps what's going on is that they're tapping back into that for me, which I just adored. So very briefly recap. They're set in London, but it's ultimate London. It's a magic London back in sort of 18th century, the main character is a magician called Kel, who is very unusual in that he is able to command magic to the degree that he can actually traverse through into different worlds. And there are these other versions of London. That's grey London, which is actually our London in the time of King George third. And then there is white London, where everyone's a bit well depressed and deranged is how I described the white London is because life is hot, which has not very much magic, so are London grey London has no magic white London has very little and then there's black London, which is so powerful and so dangerous that it's actually been sealed off from the other London's because of the existential threat that it poses. But Kelly is able to travel between these worlds and in grey, London. He meets Lila, who is a fee for pickpocket she's a young woman who doesn't have much in the world but he's very resourceful and manages to get by and she steals something from Cal and this artefact that she takes kickstarts then a whole chain of consequences that then take you through that book, and the two books that follow in the trilogy. Each one is beautifully structured, I feel like you could read any one of them as a standalone. But together, they make a really comprehensive, very engaging story arc. And the ending is fantastic. I loved the way she wrapped it up, I felt like I was fully satisfied that the story had been resolved. But at the same time, it was very open and a sense that these characters were going to go on, and he could just travel on with them in your imagination, which is just what I always want for a book, I always want them to end like that. And they so rarely do. And then I saw on her Instagram that she was going back there, she was going to write another book. And I had these really mixed feelings about it. Because I felt so strongly about these three books. I was like, Oh, what if it's not as good this new one? What if it spoils the way I feel about the original books do I dare read it? Nonetheless, I was enthusiastic enough about the idea that I pre ordered it on the Kindle. And then suddenly, last weekend, I happened to open it up. And there it was, it was sitting right there waiting for me. And I had this crazy week, no time to read it all. But of course, inevitably, I did start reading it. And I really was just so happy to be back in this world back with these characters. But also there are some new characters that are brilliant and engaging, and you very quickly become very invested in them. And the original characters are that bit older now time has passed. It's seven or eight years on from the events of the last book in the trilogy. And they're different now from how they were when they were younger. And I thought that was handled really beautifully. And there's a lovely Interplay then between the new storyline that's going on and picking up the threads of the old story that you know very well, which I thought was done really well. And then it has everything. It has sea voyages, it has adventures, it has uncharted lands, it has the power struggle, there's a political thing going on. There's chase sequences, there's a masquerade. There's love I mean, I don't know what more do people want? I asked you, it was all in there. And it was really well done. All I would say to anyone who did love the darker shades books is Do not be afraid to read this you are in very, very safe hands. VE Schwab is brilliant writer, I think. And she puts a lot of heart into these books. I don't know her skill as a writer, but you can tell her love and care. And you sense that she loves red London and these characters as much as you do. And she's also very happy to be back there. So it was a treat. It's been one of those books, like you were saying, actually, this is the book where every spare moment I've had I've got it out and I've so happily dive back in and so narrowly avoided missing my stop on the tube so many times because I would suddenly go on some level go Capitol runoff because I've been busy reading some part of the adventure. They're great. It's great, the fragile threads of power. It's called by VE Schwab.