Witchmark by C L Polk

[lightreads]

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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[thefourthvine]

Have you read Salt Magic, Skin Magic? More h/c than this, but at least for me it hit that same spot of “serious topics, but you don’t have to suffer or stress too much.”

[lightreads]

Not yet. It, like everything, is on the list.