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A review by nclcaitlin
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
4.0
Regency meets sorcery. Cozy meets horrifying. T Kingfisher and her traumatic past with horses.
Cordelia’s mother plans to marry a rich Squire and marry Cordelia off to someone even richer. Only thing is, her mother is an evil sorceress and extremely controlling and manipulative.
When Cordelia moves to the estate of her mother’s newest target, she finds a place that makes her feel safer and a wonderful friend in Hester, the Squire’s older sister.
Hester is amazing! A fifty-one year old shrewd, witty woman who has a heart of gold, immediately takes Cordelia under her wing, and is extremely suspicious of Cordelia’s mother (nicknamed Doom) and her ambitions.
“Eh?" Hester realized that her brother had been speaking. "What was that? You have to speak up, my hearing's not what it was." (This was entirely untrue, but she had found that it was a very good excuse when she had simply been ignoring a dull conversation.)
T Kingfisher tackles some heavy topics with a drop of cozy and heartwarming protagonists.
Her mother can make Cordelia be obedient which made her akin to a puppet- controlling her body but Cordelia is still inside looking out helpless.
When we first meet her, and for most of the book, Cordelia is extremely meek and scared and unsure. Closing the door when she was home alone was as much rebellion as she initially dared. Living on an estate where she can suddenly close doors, keep secrets, and have a lovely maid is novelty to her.
Her mother's good moods had once been more difficult to live with than the bad ones. Cordelia had dared to hope that things would change, that all would be better, that there would be no more obedience, and the weight of her hope had crushed her beneath it. Now she no longer had such illusions.
Expect tensely fraught dinner conversations, delightful dinner guests, knitting, card games, but also grizzly murders.
This is a <b>comedic book of Jane Austen-esque manners</b>, but there is also a grisly, headless, glowing horse that roams the grounds at night.
T Kingfisher has definitely become an auto-read author for me and her range is INSANE!
Thank you to Tor for providing the physical arc in exchange for a review!
Cordelia’s mother plans to marry a rich Squire and marry Cordelia off to someone even richer. Only thing is, her mother is an evil sorceress and extremely controlling and manipulative.
When Cordelia moves to the estate of her mother’s newest target, she finds a place that makes her feel safer and a wonderful friend in Hester, the Squire’s older sister.
Hester is amazing! A fifty-one year old shrewd, witty woman who has a heart of gold, immediately takes Cordelia under her wing, and is extremely suspicious of Cordelia’s mother (nicknamed Doom) and her ambitions.
“Eh?" Hester realized that her brother had been speaking. "What was that? You have to speak up, my hearing's not what it was." (This was entirely untrue, but she had found that it was a very good excuse when she had simply been ignoring a dull conversation.)
T Kingfisher tackles some heavy topics with a drop of cozy and heartwarming protagonists.
Her mother can make Cordelia be obedient which made her akin to a puppet- controlling her body but Cordelia is still inside looking out helpless.
When we first meet her, and for most of the book, Cordelia is extremely meek and scared and unsure. Closing the door when she was home alone was as much rebellion as she initially dared. Living on an estate where she can suddenly close doors, keep secrets, and have a lovely maid is novelty to her.
Her mother's good moods had once been more difficult to live with than the bad ones. Cordelia had dared to hope that things would change, that all would be better, that there would be no more obedience, and the weight of her hope had crushed her beneath it. Now she no longer had such illusions.
Expect tensely fraught dinner conversations, delightful dinner guests, knitting, card games, but also grizzly murders.
This is a <b>comedic book of Jane Austen-esque manners</b>, but there is also a grisly, headless, glowing horse that roams the grounds at night.
T Kingfisher has definitely become an auto-read author for me and her range is INSANE!
Thank you to Tor for providing the physical arc in exchange for a review!