Caroline Stevermer's A College of Magics
This is one of those books I’ve seen recommended many times over the years, but for some reason had never read (even though I like the series Stevermer co-wrote with Patricia Wrede a lot). It was pretty good! It’s about a girl, technically the duchess of her home nation, but her uncle has been ruling in her place, and now he’s forcing her to go to a far-off magical boarding school (I will say the world building here is a bit odd—it’s like Europe exists, and Shakespeare and Marx, but there are some extra countries in there somewhere? It was distracting). Anyway, there is some good friendship stuff here, and some of the political and magical shenanigans were interesting, but I did think this dragged a bit, and I had mixed feelings about how things wrapped up. Solid book but I don’t know if I’ll revisit or read the sequel. B/B+.
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