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A Sorceress Comes to Call

Written by:
T. Kingfisher
Narrated by:
Jennifer Pickens , Eliza Foss

Unabridged Audiobook

Ratings
Book
11
Narrator
2
Release Date
August 6, 2024
Duration
10 hours 19 minutes
Summary
From New York Times bestselling and Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes A Sorceress Comes to Call—a dark reimagining of the Brothers Grimm's 'The Goose Girl,' rife with secrets, murder, and forbidden magic.

Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him.

But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t evil sorcerers.

When her mother unexpectedly moves them into the manor home of a wealthy older Squire and his kind but keen-eyed sister, Hester, Cordelia knows this welcoming pair are to be her mother's next victims. But Cordelia feels at home for the very first time among these people, and as her mother's plans darken, she must decide how to face the woman who raised her to save the people who have become like family.

'Kingfisher never fails to dazzle.'—Peter S. Beagle, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning author of The Last Unicorn

'Kingfisher is an inventive fantasy powerhouse.'—BookPage

Also by T. Kingfisher
Nettle & Bone
Thornhedge
What Moves the Dead
What Feasts at Night
A House with Good Bones

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books.
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Mojgan B.

Great narrator. Fun book.

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Kate M.

What happens when you mix the Grimm fairy tale, The Goose Girl, with a Regency Era romance, and a dark touch of the gothic? Well, I suppose it would be this book. I read this alongside the audiobook that rotates between two different narrators of the younger girl (Cordelia’s view) and squire’s elder sister (Hester’s view). Cordelia is frightened by her mother’s control and violent tendencies, but grows bold over time as she sees the need to stop her mother from destroying her want for independence and the friends she garners along the way. Hester finds a need to fight for her family’s (and love’s) protection, when the sorceress comes a calling. I do wonder about Cordelia’s life now at the end of the book as to if she also lost any of her magic? Odd Notes: I find it very interesting that limpet was used as a metaphor twice. Also page 125 kind of makes me wonder if Squire was married or not because it sounded like he was at one time with the reference word of “again”, despite his prior statement that he thought matrimony a trap.

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