Long Shadow

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Call Number: Fantasy / Atwater, Olivia
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fantasy / Atwater, Olivia	4-week checkout	On Shelf

Includes an excerpt of For the Wolf by Hannah Whitten (pages 265-281).
"Originally published by Starwatch Press in 2021"--Title page verso.
Proper Regency ladies are not supposed to become magicians--but Miss Abigail Wilder is far from proper. The marriageable young ladies of London are dying mysteriously, and Abigail Wilder intends to discover why. Abigail's father, the Lord Sorcier of England, believes that a dark lord of faerie is involved. But while Abigail is willing to match her magic against Lord Longshadow, neither her father nor high society believes that she is capable of doing so. Thankfully, Abigail is not the only one investigating the terrible events. Mercy, a street rat and self-taught magician, insists on joining Abigail in unraveling the mystery. Mercy is unpredictable, and her magic is strange and foreboding--but the greatest danger she poses may well be to Abigail's heart. A queer romantic faerie tale of defiant hope and love against all odds, set in Olivia Atwater's enchanting version of Regency England.

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Victorian fantasy queer romance submitted by apknapp on July 23, 2023, 11:56am Sweet and generally fun, with just a hit of darkness, as is true of all of this author's work (and should be true of any fairy story). My one complaint is that there was a bit of a disconnect for me between the romance and the way the main POV character was presented -- she came across as a young girl, maybe tween-aged, but clearly was meant to be in her upper teens, old enough to be falling in love. I couldn't quite reconcile the character's youthful voice with the romance theme.