I picked this up from the recommendations wall at my local library and loved the idea of being able to hop between parallel worlds. And, London? Might as well do a little traveling at the same time. 

 

As one of the last Antari, a rare blood-magic wielder, Kell can walk between worlds. Officially, Kell is part ambassador, part messenger tasked with passing communications from one London’s royalty to the next. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler. 

 

Kell’s smuggling hobby quickly turns dangerous when he unknowingly transports a forbidden piece of magic from Black London, a formerly powerful kingdom now shut off from the rest of the world. While fleeing, Kell runs into, quite literally, a pick pocketer who first robs him, then joins forces with him—in her world, and in his—to stop the deathly spread of black magic. 

 

A fast paced, fantasy-adjacent book. There’s magic, yes, but it’s vague and left me wishing for more from the magic system and relationships between the different Londons. For an inter-dimensional book, the story felt a little one-dimensional at times. Enjoyable, but finished wanting more.