Third Leyendecker inspired piece for @fahye's The Last Binding trilogy, the other two can be found here and here. To express the overbrimming joy the last book gave me and draw some more hats.

(my The Last Binding tag, and my art tag)

(They're definitely Up To Something)

made some memes

Still one of my favourite scenes to happen in A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske @fahye

Make sure to see the full version on AO3!

Character, book, and author names under the cut

James St. Clair- Dark Rise Series by C.S. Pacat

Shuos Jedao- Ninefox Gambit by Yoon Ha Lee

Jack Alston/Lord Hawthorn- The Last Binding Trilogy by Freya Marske

Alastair Carstairs- The Last Hours by Cassandra Clare

how it started

vs. how it's going

so I finished A Power Unbound yesterday

Happy book birthday to A Power Unbound by @fahye. Here's Addy in her red dress.

The Last Binding Trilogy Cover Art - William Morris designs

I love how beautiful these covers are, and I love how William Morris is used throughout the books in little ways.

I’m reading A Power Unbound and had to draw these idiots.

I’ll probably redraw this later and neaten it up a bit ☺️

Book launch poster for A Power Unbound, book 3 of Freya Marske/@fahye's spectacular The Last Binding trilogy which has completely taken over my brain for the last few years. See the ones I did for book 1 and 2 here (they do look nice all lined up, if I say so myself!)

This book has so much cool action and twists and turns, and one of my favourite romances of all time (it's somehow the softest and the spiciest). Added all the other characters as well because I adore them, the most hyper competent yet chaotic protagonist group ever to run amok in 1909.

my The Last Binding tag, and my art tag

More from The Last Binding, I can't stop thinking about themmm

A Power Unbound

Secrets! Magic! Enemies to… something more? Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, would love a nice, safe, comfortable life. After the death of his twin sister, he thought he was done with magic for good. But with the threat of a dangerous ritual hanging over every magician in Britain, he’s drawn reluctantly back into that world. Now Jack is living in a bizarre puzzle-box of a magical London townhouse, helping an unlikely group of friends track down the final piece of the Last Contract before their enemies can do the same. And to make matters worse, they need the help of writer and thief Alan Ross. Cagey and argumentative, Alan is only in this for the money. The aristocratic Lord Hawthorn, with all his unearned power, is everything that Alan hates. And unfortunately, Alan happens to be everything that Jack wants in one gorgeous, infuriating package. When a plot to seize unimaginable power comes to a head at Cheetham Hall—Jack’s ancestral family estate, a land so old and bound in oaths that it’s grown a personality as prickly as its owner—Jack, Alan and their allies will become entangled in a night of champagne, secrets, and bloody sacrifice… and the foundations of magic in Britain will be torn up by the roots before the end.

Coming November 2023

PRE-ORDER: US

PRE-ORDER: UK

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Jack Alston, Lord Hawthorn, from A Power Unbound by Freya Marske @fahye

Alan looked at his hand engulfed in Jack’s. He said, coming to the realisation along the way, like a sentence that only revealed itself word by word as he wrote it down: “You’re still the kind of arse who’ll pick two fights before breakfast, but you’ve been desperate for someone else to look after, haven’t you?”

Thoughts on A Power Unbound, in no particular order and with an effort made to avoid major spoilers:

-Why does anyone in this story bother with magic when both of the Blyths are there to do actual violence?

-I have to reread A Marvelous Light because I'd forgotten how much I love Adelaide

-Extremely uneven power dynamics are toxic and destructive but can also be fun and kinky

-Every protagonist in this trilogy says 'be gay do crimes'

-Edwin Courcey my beloved overachiever

-Alan Ross is awarded Brother of the Century award (Walter Courcey is awarded whatever the opposite of that is)

-Lady Cheetham and Lady Dufay are both magnificent and I assume they live happily ever after together doing magnificent magical Lady things

-"Alan, we're in a house so full of inverts that Wilde could write a play about it"

-"It's alarming that forgery is your first instinct, but I admire it."

-the bees <333333333

Sketchy concepts for Alan And Jack from A Power Unbound! I love this series and miss these characters already!