--- product_id: 176357356 title: "Shadowplay: Micah Grey, Book 2 (Strange Chemistry) Paperback – January 7, 2014" brand: "laura lam" price: "KD 12.36" currency: KWD in_stock: true reviews_count: 15 category: "Books" url: https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/176357356-shadowplay-micah-grey-book-2-strange-chemistry-paperback-january-7 store_origin: KW region: Kuwait --- # Shadowplay: Micah Grey, Book 2 (Strange Chemistry) Paperback – January 7, 2014 **Brand:** laura lam **Price:** KD 12.36 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Shadowplay: Micah Grey, Book 2 (Strange Chemistry) Paperback – January 7, 2014 by laura lam - **How much does it cost?** KD 12.36 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.kw](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/176357356-shadowplay-micah-grey-book-2-strange-chemistry-paperback-january-7) ## Best For - laura lam enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted laura lam brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Review Praise for Laura LamPantomime -- 2014 Rainbow List Selection"Pantomime by Laura Lam took me to an exotic and detailed world, peopled by characters that I'd love to be friends with...and some I'd never want to cross paths with."-Robin Hobb, author of the Farseer Trilogy“Set in a vividly imagined world with wonderful steampunk touches, Pantomimeis a fable-like story as beautifully unique as its main character.” – Malinda Lo, author of Ash, Huntress, and Adaptation“Micah is the most wonderful, complex, brave and contemporary teenage hero I’ve read, facing issues of identity and responsibility that will resound with any reader who has felt like an outsider. Pantomime is loving in its detail but hints at so much scope to come, it feels like the set up for an epic sequel. I raced through this book, desperate to know what happens next. ‘Look out behind you’ Robin Hobb…”- Bryony Pearce, author of Angel’s Fury and winner of the 2012 Leeds Book Award“Welcome to a world of shills and showmen, fading tech and circus freaks, where nothing and no-one is what it appears. An absorbing, accomplished debut.”- Elspeth Cooper, author of the Wild Hunt series“Who hasn’t dreamed off running off and joining the circus? Laura Lam’s Micah does just that, discovering a world of clowns and acrobats, con men and tricksters, corruption and incompetent doctors, and maybe more about himself. I look forward to more from this author.”- Brian Katcher, author of Almost Perfect and winner of the 2011 Stonewall Children’s and Young Adult Literature Award“In PANTOMIME, Laura Lam has created a world which will take your breath away, and characters you will never want to leave. Enchanting.” - Lou Morgan, author of Blood and Feathers“A lyrical, stunningly written debut novel, which set my heart racing with every lift of the trapeze. In Micah we have one of the most original – and likeable – protagonists I’ve read in a long time. An author to watch, without a doubt.”- Amy McCulloch, author of The Oathbreaker’s Shadow  Read more About the Author Laura Lam was raised near San Francisco, CA by two former Haight-Ashbury hippies. Both of them encouraged her to finger-paint to her heart's desire, color outside of the lines, and consider the library a second home. This led to an overabundance of daydreams.She relocated to Scotland to be with her husband, whom she met on the internet when he insulted her taste in books. She almost blocked him but is glad she didn't. At times she misses the sunshine. The author lives in Scotland, UK. Read more ## Images ![Shadowplay: Micah Grey, Book 2 (Strange Chemistry) Paperback – January 7, 2014 - Image 1](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51NpFJNPZwL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ I cannot wait for Masquerade *by B***S on Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2015* The middle book of any trilogy has the hardest job to do: it has to complicate the overall narrative while still being its own book. Bad middle books feel like filler; hundreds of pages of marked time between two cliffhangers. Good middle books walk the fine line between staying true to the story you fell in love with in the first book and twisting it enough to keep you interested in reading the next installment.Shadowplay, I am happy to say, is a good middle book. As the second book in Laura Lam’s Micah Grey series, Shadowplay opens after one crisis and ends with another, but the path between them never feels like filler.The events at the end of Pantomime force Micah into hiding again, this time with Drystan at his side. Drystan calls in a life-debt from the disgraced magician Jasper Maske to secure a hiding place at the dusty Kymri Theater, and thus begins Micah’s second adventure. Again, Micah goes into hiding. Again, Micah takes on a false identity. But the difference in Shadowplay is that he does so in plain sight. And at night he has a place to return to where people know who he really is and accepts him for that. I loved that nuance.One area ripe for exploration that was missed, though, was Micah’s new identity. In the city of Imachara, while outside on the street, Micah wears a small piece of Vestige which makes him appear to be Temnian. In the book, Temnian people are coded as people of color; visibly foreign and visible different—“from the colonies,” mistrusted. As Sam (Micah’s name when passing as Temnian), Micah should face structural oppression. Unless Ellada is much further along in terms of race relations than we are in the real world, this should probably have been more than a couple of scowls on the street as mentioned in the text. This oversight is compounded when Cyan, an actual Temnian girl, joins the group. She either never speaks of whatever structural oppression she faces or she never experiences any. She seems to have no feelings on the matter that these two White kids are passing themselves off as Temnian. I’m not saying she should be bothered by it, necessarily, but she probably should have had an opinion on it one way or the other. In any case, there is a potential for this element of the book to rub readers of color the wrong way since Micah is literally using race as a costume for large sections of the book without any substantial reflection of what that means.That said, I did truly appreciate that in Shadowplay Lam began to unweave Micah’s intersexuality from his apparent special abilities around Vestige—which become more pronounced in this book. We learn more about that in Shadowplay; the Phantom Damselfy herself becomes a prominent character with a name and a history and a future. We also learn that there are others with similar abilities in Micah’s world. It’s confirmed more than once over the course of the book that it may just be coincidence that Micah is intersex and has these abilities. Micah is allowed to be just Micah.Shadowplay is excellently paced and explores a different part of Elladan culture than Pantomime—magic shows and seances. I, actually, am fascinated by the historical spiritualism movement and the practices of debunking seances, so this was an oddly perfect match for my interests. Between Micah’s Phantom Damselfly induced visions, magician training, and tracking down people who are tracking down him, there is plenty of plot to go around. There are double agents. There is a slow-burning, very sweet romance, but not before the trauma of the ending of the first book has to be dealt with and processed by both Micah and Drystan. There is the question of Micah’s weird abilities and the potential and the danger they pose. And there is a hell of an ending and the questions it raisesI cannot wait for Masquerade. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and I really love the exploration of the main character's issues with their ... *by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015* Such intriguing world-building, and I really love the exploration of the main character's issues with their gender identity/presentation as well as intersex status. I also enjoy the slow build of the relationship between the main character and one of the other characters in the story (trying to avoid spoilers here). Excellent sequel to Pantomime, which I devoured quickly. I would love to read more about this character, or even just this world! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Well written till the ending *by T***Y on Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2014* Well written story that keeps you reading. I thought the ending was not the best part of the book, I do not like it when the author cuts off the book abruptly so another sequel can be written. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/176357356-shadowplay-micah-grey-book-2-strange-chemistry-paperback-january-7](https://www.desertcart.com.kw/products/176357356-shadowplay-micah-grey-book-2-strange-chemistry-paperback-january-7) --- *Product available on Desertcart Kuwait* *Store origin: KW* *Last updated: 2026-05-16*