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House In Hiding, Jenny Schwartz 22 November 2024

2020 fantasy, middle volume of its trilogy. Being one of the few hugely powerful sorcerers means everyone wants to lure you onto their side.

So the opposition in this book mostly takes the form not of "I don't like you, I will attack you" but rather "I think you're great, and here's an interesting puzzle for you". And while Kira is working on this puzzle, she's not working on that one; and here's a convenient answer to this one which would keep life easy for the powers that be…

There is less basic worldbuilding this time, and more about the people in Kira's world-travelling House. For me that made it less enjoyable to read, but it certainly still had its moments, and on reflection I'm appreciating the depth of the setting more than I did while reading.

Things happen, but less than did in the first book, since this is after all a middle volume; the advice people give, and their reactions to events, seem rather more important than the occasional bit of world-shaking magic.

Like the first, this is a short book (54,000 words all-up) with a cliffhanger ending; I think the idea is to lure the reader into paying three books' worth of cover price for what is really one medium-sized novel. In spite of that I enjoyed this and will probably read the third.

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