The Shadow
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Last published Wed, Feb 13, 2019
Magic is just illusion... they say but isn't Science the art of giving an excuse for every simple activity of life?
Your answer is probably 'no' or unlikely 'yes'. Anyway, it really does not matter since the basic idea is life still accelerates uniformly towards death.
The shadow is a turning point of art utilised to capture the negligible issues in life and how they level out to construct the luxury of laying out life's complexity.Simply... The Shadow is about creating a galaxy from an ant-hill.
Davinci Clodes is at the peak of his career but as a magician he presses his research too far... as a result pure evil rises from his hardwork, evil which Clodes himself doubts if his is powerful enough to reverse.The story consists of love, death, magic and so much more ensuring it to be an interesting novel for you.
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