I have been reading
Aug. 12th, 2013 09:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shallownessI've been away over the weekend, which meant very little control over the TV, so I have to catch up on a few shows. I read books instead, one of which was Sorcery and Cecilia or the Enchanted Chocolate Pot by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer, which I expect most people on my friends list will have read. If you haven’t and you love Regencies (especially Georgette Heyer’s oeuvre) and fantasy, go get this. It’s a JOY.
The story is told via the correspondence of two cousins, Cecy and Kate – I don’t know why that wasn’t the title – who are capable young women with a gloriously supportive relationship. One of them goes to London for her first season, one of them stays at home. However, as becomes increasingly clear, they live in a Regency England where there are wizards and sorceresses, who are not quite the thing in respectable aunts’ eyes. Their nieces have slightly more open attitudes and could be quite helpful if certain people (men) didn’t treat them as if they were hen-witted and couldn’t deal with useful information.
Basically, it made me gurgle and smile, and the note at the end about how the story came about was the cherry on top.
Does anyone know of any good reason why I shouldn’t get a hold of the sequel Grand Tour?
The story is told via the correspondence of two cousins, Cecy and Kate – I don’t know why that wasn’t the title – who are capable young women with a gloriously supportive relationship. One of them goes to London for her first season, one of them stays at home. However, as becomes increasingly clear, they live in a Regency England where there are wizards and sorceresses, who are not quite the thing in respectable aunts’ eyes. Their nieces have slightly more open attitudes and could be quite helpful if certain people (men) didn’t treat them as if they were hen-witted and couldn’t deal with useful information.
Basically, it made me gurgle and smile, and the note at the end about how the story came about was the cherry on top.
Does anyone know of any good reason why I shouldn’t get a hold of the sequel Grand Tour?
