![]() ![]() Agent: Claire Friedman and Jessica Mileo, Inkwell Management. ![]() Fans of Brandon Sanderson and Libba Bray may nevertheless appreciate this light, fantastical romance. This book is beautifully written but also incredibly harsh in the world it takes place in, based around a magical fox hunt to kill one of the final relics of an ancient world. Saft’s ( Down Comes the Night) confident prose organically charts the well-characterized protagonists’ romance, but its allegorized Catholic and Jewish experiences center on stereotype and its magic on rigid formula. A Far Wilder Magic is a gorgeous and romantic fantasy written by one of my favourite debut authors from 2021, Allison Saft. But as their slow-growing attraction blooms alongside a rivalry with the bigoted mayor’s son, Wes must find a way to crack a puzzle involving Maggie’s mother-and Maggie must choose the future she wants. After Wes’s mother is injured and his hopes further endangered, Wes and Maggie partner up to win the festive-but deadly-hala hunt, save Weston’s starving family, and bring Margaret’s mother home. And with it arrives working-class Catholic-analogue emigrants’ son Weston Winters, 18, who attempts to charm Maggie into a last-ditch apprenticeship with her mother to save his reformist political ambitions. Months after 17-year-old Jewish-analogue Margaret Welty’s researcher and alchemist mother left her behind in their crumbling New Albion manor, the Halfmoon Hunt comes to her small colonial seaside town, intending to kill the last living demiurge, the hala. Flowerheart is like a garden in full bloom: vibrant and sweet, whimsical and wondrous. ![]() Two white, religious outcasts-an alchemist and a marksman-team up in a divine fox hunt in this vividly written, 1920s-esque fantasy romance and blunt political parable. ![]()
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