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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2019-03-12 09:14 pm

Witchmark by C L Polk

Witchmark

4/5. Industrial historical-ish fantasy about a wealthy son of the magic elite run away from magical enslavement to become a doctor; there's also a murder mystery and a queer romance with a not!fae.

Another vacation book. I quite enjoyed this. It had the trick of being about very serious things – murder, discrimination, enslavement – and yet not requiring me to take it particularly seriously. This may not be a virtue in all settings, but in my circumstances, it was. I do think it was overstuffed with things! That need! To happen! Particularly in the last 20%, but whatever, there was smooching and a satisfying resolution to complicated messy family stuff.

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