{"id":24288,"date":"2025-02-23T19:51:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T00:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24288"},"modified":"2025-03-12T21:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T01:26:44","slug":"a-marvellous-light-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24288","title":{"rendered":"A Marvellous Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Marvellous Light<\/em><\/a> (2021) Freya Marske<\/a> (The Last Binding, #1)<\/p>\n

\"A<\/a>Set in London in 1908<\/p>\n

They left Miss Morrissey in a halfway tidied office. At a certain point in the re-filing process, she\u2019d given up all pretence that she wasn\u2019t seizing the opportunity to impose order on what seemed to have previously been a rather slapdash approach to organisation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself back into wilderness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He set his hands on the table, shoulder-width apart. \u201cHow much do you know about natural sciences?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cEr,\u201d said Robin. <\/p>\n

\u201cGravity? Sir Isaac Newton?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe apple chap?\u201d <\/p>\n

Edwin visibly shredded his planned explanation into shorter words.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Edwin John Courcey, Robert Harold Blyth, Maud Blyth, Miss Adelaide Harita Morrissey, Mrs. Catherine Kitty Amrit Kaur, Anne Gatling, Reginald Gatling, Len Geiger, Bowden, Martin Gunning, Lord Healsmith, the Grimm of Gloucester, Mrs. Flora Sutton, Mr. Makepeace, John Alston Baron Hawthorn, Elsie Alston, Florence Courcey, Walter Courcey, Clifford Courcey, Mrs. Belinda Walcott n\u00e9e Courcey, Charles Walcott, William Billy Byatt, Francis Miggs, Trudie Davenport, Annie, Mrs. Greengage, Dr. Hayman, Milton, Liza Sinclair, Mrs. Hathaway<\/p>\n

Cover art by Will Staehle. Cover design by Christine Foltzer<\/p>\n

Published by Tor<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Marvellous Light (2021) Freya Marske (The Last Binding, #1) Set in London in 1908 They left Miss Morrissey in a halfway tidied office. At a certain point in the re-filing process, she\u2019d given up all pretence that she wasn\u2019t seizing the opportunity to impose order on what seemed to have previously been a rather […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,27,30,292,2,204,33,148,41,26,56],"tags":[50,689,544,690],"class_list":["post-24288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-alternate-history","category-british","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-historical","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-freya-marske","tag-mm","tag-the-last-binding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6jK","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22215,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22215","url_meta":{"origin":24288,"position":0},"title":"A Marvellous Light","author":"Michelle","date":"September 16, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A Marvellous Light (2021) Freya Marske (The Last Binding) Set in England in 1908 Another time period I love--not yet modernity, but some of the trappings are starting to appear. A chauffeur was not needed. Robin referred vaguely to friends of his who owned motorcars and had taught him the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Marvellous Light","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":18855,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/18855","url_meta":{"origin":24288,"position":1},"title":"A Marvellous Light","author":"Michelle","date":"December 5, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A Marvellous Light (2021) Freya Marske (The Last Binding) Set in England prior to The Great War. Maybe 1906 or 1907. After his parents were killed ina car wreck, Robin Blyth has to pick up the pieces of the life they left him and his sister. \u201cYou don\u2019t talk about\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "9\/10"","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Marvellous Light","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24295,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24295","url_meta":{"origin":24288,"position":2},"title":"A Restless Truth","author":"Michelle","date":"March 3, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A Restless Truth (2022) Freya Marske (The Last Binding, #2) Set in England and across the Atlantic Ocean in 1909 There was a parlour game: one stared at a tray of objects before it was taken away, adjusted, and placed back in front of one\u2019s eyes. Some things added. Some\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "9\/10"","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Restless Truth","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/A_Restless_Truth.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22508,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22508","url_meta":{"origin":24288,"position":3},"title":"A Restless Truth","author":"Michelle","date":"November 5, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A Restless Truth (2022) Freya Marske (Last Binding) Set in England in 1908 (or so) One of the things I especially like about this series are the lovely secondary characters. \u201cMiss Debenham,\u201d he said, warm with pride, \u201cmeet Lady Albert Barton. My wife.\u201d Oh. Lady Albert Barton rolled her eyes\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Restless Truth","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/A_Restless_Truth.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24300,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24300","url_meta":{"origin":24288,"position":4},"title":"A Power Unbound","author":"Michelle","date":"March 9, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A Power Unbound (2023) Freya Marske (The Last Binding Book 3) Set in England in 1909 Spinet House was a young thing, built by a master carpenter-thaumoluthier and his energetically creative wife. It was a fortress. It was a musical, magical puzzle box. It was a fucking headache. When Alan\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "9\/10"","block_context":{"text":"9\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/9-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Power Unbound","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound-196x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":22559,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22559","url_meta":{"origin":24288,"position":5},"title":"A Power Unbound","author":"Michelle","date":"November 27, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A Power Unbound (2023) Freya Marske (The Last Binding) Set in England in 1909 The final book in the Last Binding Trilogy centers on Alston, Lord Hawthorn who has been arrogant and supercilious throughout the series, but here becomes Jack, and Alan, Alanzo Rossi, who met Alston, Maud, and Violet\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "8.5\/10"","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"A Power Unbound","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/A-Power-Unbound.jpg?resize=1400%2C800&ssl=1 4x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}