![]() ![]() Prunella is this very powerful self taught young woman who decides that she’s going to join Zacharias on his adventure, whether or not he’s interested. They don’t seem to have any trouble with the shortage of magic. Then, in the process, he makes a side trip to give a lecture at a girls’ school and finds all of these young women doing all of this magic. His job now is to find out what is going on as well as try to wrangle this organization of, quite frankly, old white men who want nothing to do with him and are super mad that he’s in charge now. When they go to do spells, there’s literally not enough magic for them to do it. “The problem that they’re having is: magic is drying up. He was brought up by a wealthy white family, and he is now a grown man, and is the Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers, which is the sort of magician organization in Britain. The basic plot that the main character, Zacharias, is a freed slave. It goes beyond the borders of England, it’s got a slightly international cast, and it has a female character who I just die for. ![]() It has all of the elements of the classic fantasy, but she’s really updated it in that you have a main character who is black, doesn’t happen in classic fantasy really often. ![]() This is a novel set in olde-time Britain, and there’s lords, and there’s dragons, and there’s fairyland. “What I think Zen Cho did in this book is that she captures the sort of baseline of fantasy. ![]()
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