Sorcerer to the Crown

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Zen Cho, Lydia Monks: Sorcerer to the Crown (2015, Pan Macmillan)

416 pages

English language

Published Nov. 8, 2015 by Pan Macmillan.

ISBN:
978-1-4472-9948-6
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Magic and mayhem collide with the British elite in this whimsical and sparkling debut.

At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers—one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain—ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England’s magical stocks are drying up.

But when his adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain—and the world at large…

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I enjoyed this book. It had all the fun parts of Heyer or Kowal's glamourist series plus a look at the consequences of British imperialism. But I think I may have liked it more if I hadn't read Uprooted first.

Subjects

  • Fiction, fantasy, historical
  • Great britain, fiction