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lightreads) wrote2021-07-10 10:08 am
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The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry by C. M. Waggoner
The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry
4/5. A fire witch takes a bodyguard job to try and make rent and maybe help her addict mother. She gets tangled up in revenge and the drug trade and very many plots and a possessed mouse, and also starts a romance with a half-troll gentlewoman far above her station.
Ah, this is delightful. One of those deceptive books that gives you a steady stream of whimsical language and good jokes, and makes you think you are embarking on a cheerful queer magical adventure, but then enmeshes you in deeper and deeper complication and consequence so that you are neck deep in feelings before you quite realize it. This book is particularly good about money and class and how they play into romance. Bit awkward when you set out to seduce a girl to get a fun roll in the hay and a few gifts and end up with a marriage proposal, what. Other notable good bits: what being the child of an addict can do to you; how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are, in the end, who we are; hilarious/horrifying undead mouse; oh yeah and how pretty much everyone who matters for more than a hot second in this book is not a man.
Anyway, enjoyed it. Good romp with true and complicated feeling to it.
4/5. A fire witch takes a bodyguard job to try and make rent and maybe help her addict mother. She gets tangled up in revenge and the drug trade and very many plots and a possessed mouse, and also starts a romance with a half-troll gentlewoman far above her station.
Ah, this is delightful. One of those deceptive books that gives you a steady stream of whimsical language and good jokes, and makes you think you are embarking on a cheerful queer magical adventure, but then enmeshes you in deeper and deeper complication and consequence so that you are neck deep in feelings before you quite realize it. This book is particularly good about money and class and how they play into romance. Bit awkward when you set out to seduce a girl to get a fun roll in the hay and a few gifts and end up with a marriage proposal, what. Other notable good bits: what being the child of an addict can do to you; how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are, in the end, who we are; hilarious/horrifying undead mouse; oh yeah and how pretty much everyone who matters for more than a hot second in this book is not a man.
Anyway, enjoyed it. Good romp with true and complicated feeling to it.
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Yes, it's great. Her first book, which is about the half-troll gentlewoman's parents, is also very good and charming but more weirdly paced, fwiw.
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Oh, is that what it's about? Will read.
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(Read & enjoyed it, particularly the mouse.)
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The mouse is particularly good in the audiobook. Nice, resonant, hilarious/terrifying BONG