A review by luckyonesoph
A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher

dark emotional hopeful medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

i really liked this! and i read it in just two sittings, which is always a good sign. i definitely want to check out more of this author's work. 

what i liked:
- cordelia's curiosity and strength. for such a sheltered character, she's feels very real, and i liked that her inner monologue and emotion-driven decision-making actually felt like that of a young teenage girl because a lot of fantasy books make teenage characters sound and act so much older. 
- hester and cordelia's friendship. intergenerational kinship among women is life-saving in every universe, and they were so sweet. 
- the writing was surprisingly witty! i didn't expect to laugh out loud while reading such a dark book. 

a few small things that bothered me:
- i dont love

automatically knowing and understanding the villain right from the beginning of a book, because it lowers the stakes for me a little bit. but i understand that this is common for fairtytales and therefore makes sense in a retelling

. 
- evangeline's character felt

kind of...flimsy? archetypal? cartoon villain? to me. if your whole goal in life is to have your daughter marry a wealthy man, why shelter her like that? why raise her like that? why abuse her like that? i struggled to understand her motivations and found myself making a ton of assumptions that im not sure im right about.

 
-

that annoying ass horse