A Sorceress Comes to Call

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Hardcover, 336 pages

English language

Published Aug. 6, 2024 by Tor Publishing Group.

ISBN:
978-1-250-24407-9
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5 stars (5 reviews)

Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him.

But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t evil sorcerers.

When her mother unexpectedly moves them into the manor home of a wealthy older Squire and his kind but keen-eyed sister, Hester, Cordelia knows this welcoming pair are to be her mother's next victims. But Cordelia feels at home for the very first time among these people, and as her mother's plans darken, she must decide how to face the woman who raised …

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reviewed A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

A sort of sociopath social climber vs salt-of-the-earth old maid fairy tale

5 stars

With a young girl caught in the middle. I have yet to meet a book by T Kingfisher I didn’t enjoy and this keeps the streak alive. Magic is mostly just a thing of myth, except when it comes to Cordelia’s mother, and when she decides she needs a husband and sets her sights on a well-to-do squire, Cordelia is caught in the middle between her mother and Hester, the old maid who runs the house with extreme pragmatism and a good heart.

reviewed A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

A Sorceress Comes to Call

5 stars

This T. Kingfisher book is a regency-esque novel about an abusive sorceress trying to magically worm her way into a marriage for money with her terrified daughter in tow.

The setting feels like regency mixed with fantasy, but also where all the identifying details of either genre have been blurred out. There's sorcery, social classes, and concerns about money and inheritance. However, there's no specific sense of place here in either a regency or fantasy genre here, and instead the novel comes off as a character-focused comedy of manners and dark fantasy/horror mashup.

As with most T. Kingfisher books, I adored the characters and the character dynamics and that carried a lot of story for me. Maybe this is too personal, but some of the abusive dynamics hit a little too close to home for me (especially the bits around doors and privacy), but it made Cordelia finding safety and …

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