A review by aimee70807
Magic Below Stairs by Caroline Stevermer

4.0

This is a much better book than I thought it would be from the cover. I hadn't realized when I picked it out, but the author is one of the co-authors of Sorcery & Cecilia, and this book takes place in that world. I liked all of the little explanations of day-to-day life of servants in the Victorian era (since they seem to be everpresent in most books of this type, but rarely mentioned in detail), and the story was more gripping than it usually is in middle reader books.

I docked a star...I'm not sure why. Probably just because the book is middle readers, but possibly also because I thought the magician lord should have been more interested in the help's lives if he was portrayed as being so nice.