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A review by obsidian_blue
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher
5.0
Please note that I received this via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.
Huh. I had to sit with it. Not a typical Kingfisher. It doesn’t have as much humor or even gallows humor. It was an interesting plot we got with what I would call a regency thriller gothic novel? Is that a thing? Look it’s a thing.
"A Sorceress Comes to Call" follows Cordelia and an older woman named Hester who is the sister to the local squire. Cordelia has a very lonely upbringing and is constantly dealing with her mother forcing "obedience" on her. And the only friend she has is her mother's horse Falada who she rides sometimes with her neighbor. One day though Cordelia realizes that her "odd mother" is something more. Hester, realizes there's something odd about Cordelia and her mother, but knows that she has to do what she can to prevent him from coming to harm after they come to call on him and seem intent on staying put.
I loved the characters and the way Kingfisher portrayed consent in this book. The characters of Cordelia, Hester, Penelope Green, and Imogene were fantastic and I would love a short story showing things five years in the future. Cordelia just grows throughout the book and goes from timid to quite brave. And Hester, she finally gets brave too and decides to go for something that she didn't really think she could ever have. I loved that this book was very much about women and some men that stood and backed them up.
The setting of the book takes place in a Regency type fictional era. If you read it with that lens it makes quite a lot of sense. And as I said above, there are Gothic elements that were quite good.
The ending was great and also sad, but I just thought that Kingfisher ended it on a perfect note.
Anyway go read Kingfisher’s backlist!
Huh. I had to sit with it. Not a typical Kingfisher. It doesn’t have as much humor or even gallows humor. It was an interesting plot we got with what I would call a regency thriller gothic novel? Is that a thing? Look it’s a thing.
"A Sorceress Comes to Call" follows Cordelia and an older woman named Hester who is the sister to the local squire. Cordelia has a very lonely upbringing and is constantly dealing with her mother forcing "obedience" on her. And the only friend she has is her mother's horse Falada who she rides sometimes with her neighbor. One day though Cordelia realizes that her "odd mother" is something more. Hester, realizes there's something odd about Cordelia and her mother, but knows that she has to do what she can to prevent him from coming to harm after they come to call on him and seem intent on staying put.
I loved the characters and the way Kingfisher portrayed consent in this book. The characters of Cordelia, Hester, Penelope Green, and Imogene were fantastic and I would love a short story showing things five years in the future. Cordelia just grows throughout the book and goes from timid to quite brave. And Hester, she finally gets brave too and decides to go for something that she didn't really think she could ever have. I loved that this book was very much about women and some men that stood and backed them up.
The setting of the book takes place in a Regency type fictional era. If you read it with that lens it makes quite a lot of sense. And as I said above, there are Gothic elements that were quite good.
The ending was great and also sad, but I just thought that Kingfisher ended it on a perfect note.
Anyway go read Kingfisher’s backlist!