{"id":26540,"date":"2026-04-08T22:29:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=26540"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:10:47","slug":"a-marvellous-light-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/26540","title":{"rendered":"A Marvellous Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Marvellous Light<\/em> (2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/authors\/Marske_Freya.php\">Freya Marske<\/a> (The Last Binding #1)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A-Marvellous-Light.jpg?resize=190%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Marvellous Light\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\"  \/>Set in England in 1908<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou\u2019ve been cursed, and you think this is a time to make jokes?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Blyth shoved his sleeve down again. \u201cI\u2019ve been cursed, so I\u2019ll make all the jokes I please.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>A chauffeur was not needed. Robin referred vaguely to friends of his who owned motorcars and had taught him the knack of it in Hyde Park\u2014\u201cThough the speed limit\u2019s only ten miles to the hour, in the Park. And it\u2019s twice that in the country! This should be a lark.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Most brutish behaviour.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are but feeble women,\u201d said Miss Morrissey. \u201cWoe.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour sister is a magician,\u201d Robin said, pointing out what seemed the largest hole in this story. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWoe,\u201d said Mrs. Kaur firmly, and Robin recalled what Miss Morrissey had said about the assumptions made by men.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>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<p>Cover by Will Staehle<\/p>\n<p>Publisher: Tordotcom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Marvellous Light (2021) Freya Marske (The Last Binding #1) Set in England in 1908 \u201cYou\u2019ve been cursed, and you think this is a time to make jokes?\u201d Blyth shoved his sleeve down again. \u201cI\u2019ve been cursed, so I\u2019ll make all the jokes I please.\u201d A chauffeur was not needed. Robin referred vaguely to friends [&hellip;]<\/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":[13,27,30,938,292,2,204,33,8,148,41,26,56],"tags":[50,689,544,690],"class_list":["post-26540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-alternate-history","category-british","category-dual-point-of-view","category-ebook","category-fantasy","category-good","category-historical","category-mystery","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-6U4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22215,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22215","url_meta":{"origin":26540,"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. 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