Melissa Marr's Remedial Magic
Right away I was like, OH, am /I/ the target audience for this book! Because the main character is a lesbian librarian who lives in Ligonier (not far from my hometown of Pittsburgh, site of childhood field trips). She lives an aggressively uninteresting life, until a mysterious woman appears in the library one day! BECAUSE ALSO, this book involves a magic school, a community college of sorts for adults whose magic has suddenly awakened (due to a near-death experience), which is in a hidden magical town. But the town is dying. And there's a prophecy that the librarian will save them! And much of the book is a romance between the librarian and the mysterious woman, but there are also POV sections from an array of other characters, such as the guy on the run from gambling debts (and cancer); the lawyer determined to escape and get back to her son; the morally ambiguous headmaster of the school; various other witches (witch is a gender-neutral term here), etc. So there is a LOT going on. I was mostly into this; some of the romance-related writing is the sort I don’t like, and I hope they fix all the typos for the final version. Also had some mixed feelings about the end, even though it’s clearly setting up book two. Pretty fun though! A-/B+.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released in February.
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