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“I love T. Kingfisher’s writing – both as Kingfisher, and when she writes as Ursula Vernon. There’s something so matter of fact and grounded about her tone; she could invent absolutely anything and I’d find her believable. And she imagines some wonderfully peculiar things. Here, the main magic we are acquainted with is ‘being made obedient.’ Cordelia’s mother can make her obedient, which means to control her body like a puppet, making it walk and talk as directed. For brow-beaten Cordelia, this is just part of her mother’s general reign of terror, and she is a little hazy on the distinctions between what is cruel, and what is cruel-and-unusual. She certainly doesn’t initially associate it with sorcery, a kind of magic generally accepted to be low-key and something of a joke.” Read more...
