A College of Magics

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A College of Magics by Caroline Stevermer

My review

rating: 3 of 5 stars
A young Duchess is sent far away from home to magic finishing school in alternate Europe, and then there's plot and politics. I picked this up because I particularly liked Stevermer's half of Sorcery and Cecelia. This didn't hit the same sweet, simple notes. It's a nice enough book, with some interesting world building and a heroine with a temper, and you really can't go wrong with magical girls' college. But this book had a vague feeling of being all under glass for me. There's a fair amount of narratorly distance, and it muffled some of the lively female friendships and the romance and the sense of cool weird magic.


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