And the other is a girl on one of those plantations who has found herself immunized against the zombie cocktails.Īs I said, I wanted to like this. One of these is a vampire and his friend, and the other is Robespierre, a commoner with the ability to mesmerize. Some people have started to think this is wrong and are starting to say that magic is for everyone. Likewise, the slaves who work in plantations are force-fed magical concoctions that turn them into zombies and eradicate their magic, too. In this world, set in the late 18th century, the wealthy aristocracy use magical bracelets to keep the poor from using their magic. I had a really tough time reading this book because on the one hand, I wanted to enjoy a dark historical fantasy. Parry, check out The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep.Instagram || Twitter || Facebook || Amazon || Pinterest 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 rights of magicians