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A Sorceress Comes to Call, by T. Kingfisher. It took me a few days to pick up this book, the last of the Hugo nominees, but once I did, I couldn’t put it down. I’d call the genre something like fantasy-Regency cozy-horror, if that makes sense – it’s a place very like Regency England, in which there are some but not many sorcerers, and although there are horror elements, they aren’t particularly scary or upsetting. We have two heroines: Cordelia, age 14, whose mother is unfortunately an evil sorcerer who likes to control Cordelia’s body, and Hester, age 51 or so, whose brother is the object of the sorcerer’s schemes – the sorcerer wants to marry him so she can better finance Cordelia’s introduction to society. Cordelia is fine, but Hester is great, as are her friends. Tremendously fun, and I will definitely be reading it again.

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