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kentcryptid's review
4.0
A magical little story with a cast of characters I'd love to read more about.
valhecka's review
5.0
Marvelous - magic changes as humans do, and humans change as history does, and at the heart are souls who all, as they always do, try to make light.
triscuit807's review
5.0
This is a novella about Magic set in London after WWI and is chiefly an investigation of a train accident and a magical signalling system. The practitioners (aka witches if you're from the North) are Salt (Grace, Ned, the apprentice Kira) and Birds-in-Flight (Thanet - who shifts gender). Ned has lost his magic due to some occurrence during the War, but he was the primary designer of the signalling system that may or may not have failed. Change is coming to London and the world as a result of industrialization and the War (women and immigrants in the workforce). The characters are very well drawn, the world-building excellent, and the story wonderful. I read this for my Hugo nominations and it's made the list.
pers's review
4.0
This was excellent. A deeply satisfying tale with a new and utterly fascinating system of magic (or more accurately, 3 systems thereof), and three interesting and engaging main characters.
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