Natania Barron's Netherford Hall
I am always wishing for more queer Jane-Austen-but-with-magic type books, so this was pretty much up my alley. Our heroines are: a witch whose family has basically been wiped out in a fire, so she and her two remaining relatives have returned to their long-abandoned country house, and now she's the magical head of the family/town despite being very unprepared; and a tenant on said country property, an irrepressible young woman with a mysterious past and a secret love of the big country house. The romance here was occasionally annoying (contrived complications), and I think sometimes there were pacing issues with the romance vs the rest of the plot (there's a lot of other plot! Vampires, relatives with their own subplots, other relatives trying to steal the property, magical monsters and magical experiments, nefarious plots, etc). It all takes a little too long to come together. I liked this enough at the beginning to go ahead and buy the sequel, but I don’t think I’ll read it. B.
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