When a sorceress named Evangeline chooses to move up in Society, she does horrific things. Her fourteen-year-old daughter, Cordelia, decides she will no longer be a part of it. (Spoiler alert!)
Just a couple days ago The Incomparable podcast talked about this and two other books as part of their annual review of Nebula and Hugo nominees. It was by far the most liked of the three. Most of Kingfisher’s works are too dark for me, but I loved A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking.
Yeah I get that - a lot of fantasy is just too dark for me. This was not so much dark as it was sad. I also kept waiting for some revelation that would explain Evangeline’s behavior and make her at least a bit more understandable, if not exactly likable. It never came; maybe it’ll be explained more in another book?
Just a couple days ago The Incomparable podcast talked about this and two other books as part of their annual review of Nebula and Hugo nominees. It was by far the most liked of the three. Most of Kingfisher’s works are too dark for me, but I loved A Wizard’s Guide To Defensive Baking.
Yeah I get that - a lot of fantasy is just too dark for me. This was not so much dark as it was sad. I also kept waiting for some revelation that would explain Evangeline’s behavior and make her at least a bit more understandable, if not exactly likable. It never came; maybe it’ll be explained more in another book?