Book completed
Feb. 17th, 2023 03:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeSorcerer to the Crown, by Zen Cho, her first book. I had originally assumed that this would be Chinese-themed, so when I first started reading it I was too surprised that it was about a Black magician in Regency England. I set it aside (actually took it back, because it was due, then got it again), and eventually I was in the mood to read it and enjoyed it. It was basically a Regency romance with magic and occasional surprising and probably unnecessary bits of violence.
Here's a paragraph that pretty much gives the flavor of the book. "Prunella had once thought life in London would be all flirting and balls and dresses, hitting attentive suitors on the shoulder with a fan, and breakfasting late upon bowls of chocolate. She sighed now for her naivete. Little had she known life in London was in fact all hexes and murder and thaumaturgical politics, and she would always be rising early for one reason or other!"
Even though this book, like Babel, features people from non-British backgrounds making their way in British society (the title character is Black and Prunella's mother was from India), it could hardly be more different. But it did stay in character for its genre, more or less.
Here's a paragraph that pretty much gives the flavor of the book. "Prunella had once thought life in London would be all flirting and balls and dresses, hitting attentive suitors on the shoulder with a fan, and breakfasting late upon bowls of chocolate. She sighed now for her naivete. Little had she known life in London was in fact all hexes and murder and thaumaturgical politics, and she would always be rising early for one reason or other!"
Even though this book, like Babel, features people from non-British backgrounds making their way in British society (the title character is Black and Prunella's mother was from India), it could hardly be more different. But it did stay in character for its genre, more or less.