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The Wizard's Butler by Nathan Lowell
4.0
Roger Mulligan, an ex-Army medic and certified EMT, needs a job. He answers an ad to be an elderly man's live in helper. The man's unsavory niece offers Roger five grand a month and a million dollars if he finishes the year long contract. For that kind of money, Roger didn't care how crazy the old man was. All he had to do was keep Joseph Perry Shackleford alive and keep him from squandering the estate for a year.
That's how it starts, and from there it's a lovely and slow, leisurely slice-of-life account of a man becoming a butler, realizing that magic and fairies are real. There is a sprinkling of magic and some legal shenanigans to give it at least a little conflict. There is found family and the start of what comes next.
I haven't ready any Nathan Lowell before, but this was just what I needed after making it 25% into a horror novel that was ratcheting up my anxiety level. I loved this, and will absolutely be looking up more of his novels.
That's how it starts, and from there it's a lovely and slow, leisurely slice-of-life account of a man becoming a butler, realizing that magic and fairies are real. There is a sprinkling of magic and some legal shenanigans to give it at least a little conflict. There is found family and the start of what comes next.
I haven't ready any Nathan Lowell before, but this was just what I needed after making it 25% into a horror novel that was ratcheting up my anxiety level. I loved this, and will absolutely be looking up more of his novels.