Juliana asked Victoria Schwab:

what inspired you to build the "a Darker Shade of Magic" world?

Victoria Schwab I'm always playing with the ideas of doors in my books. The doors between life and death, mundane and supernatural, insider and outsider, and in ADSOM, I got to play with the idea of doors between worlds. It's in some ways a much more classic incarnation of the motif, but for me, it was entirely new. I loved the idea of creating 3-4 very different worlds, tethered to one another by only one key element--the Thames river--and diverging in every other way. I'm not comfortable leaving our world entirely, so I used a realistic London as a jumping-off point, but from there I got to play.

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