Thanks to NetGalley and Macmillan Audio for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the contents of my review.
Ugh, bad ARC reviewer. I’ve had this book finished since the end of August and I’ve been totally dragging my feet on this review for some reason. And it was a good, fun book! You should read it!
T. Kingfisher basically has three types of book at this point: 1) Cozy horror, 2) Fantasy romance, and 3) Fairytale-esque dark(ish) fantasy. This book falls into the third category. It is a verrrry loose retelling of “The Goose Girl”. Like, to the point that if the publisher hadn’t outright told us it was, I would have had no idea. There are two main characters: Cordelia, a fourteen-year old girl with a sorceress (evil, abusive) for a mother; and Hester, a middle-aged spinster whose brother Cordelia’s mother has her eye set on for marriage.
This book basically turns into middle-aged people defeating a sorceress, and I was here for it. It’s not my favorite book of hers, but it was a good time.
CBR BINGO: Horses (truly this author has a beef with horses; the one in this is birthed directly from Satan’s butthole)
