2024 book 39

 Seanan McGuire’s Tricks for Free

So the plot on this one was a little flimsier, but it was definitely more fun than the previous one! Here, we find Antimony taking a job at a theme park in Florida (not that one) to basically try and stay in hiding from the people after her. She also finds a powerful cabal of magicians running things at the park and they want to train her to use her powers (this needed more buildup for the plot to work—we don’t see much of this, just hear about it after the fact). What I like most here is the friendships, just such good friendships! And if, like me, you were bummed at the lack of Aeslin mice, there is a novella at the end featuring Mindy and Mork (and Sam, but I was obviously more interested in the mice). A-.