A review by stefhyena
A Season of Spells by Sylvia Izzo Hunter

5.0

Sweet and wholesome and containing romance, and yet somehow not bland or sickening. Alternative history with enough connection to reality to be interesting but an academic magic realism that I enjoyed. It explores gender inequity without getting depressing (frustrations were present) or trivialising it. In some ways it was like a Tamora Pierce novel (which I love) but more grown up. Good world building. I couldn't like everything (like the casual acceptance of conquest as a "right" of readers) but such realism is well balanced and stops it being too Utopian.

I will be going to see what else Hunter has written.