Prunella was definitely the best character, with her spur-of-the-moment plans. As both are terrible prim and proper, nothing is said or done to imply romance until the final scene? The romance suddenly appears at the very end, despite there being no chemistry between the characters. So I assumed their meaning from the context and gained a niggling feeling I was missing the nuance. Particularly when these words appear every other page. I probably should have picked up a dictionary to check what they actually meant, but that’s not what I want to do late at night. Not to mention the frequent usage of very archaic words. It felt somewhat stilted at times and very long winded, like the characters were taking three dozen words to say yes. I didn’t like it, just like I find Classics’ prose a slog to read. This book is written in the Regency England style, the prose very much like Austen’s works. It was an intriguing plot, full of enough mysteries to keep me turning the pages even though I really struggled with the writing style. The book is very slow paced, drawing out the world as the plot plods along. If you like classic works of literature, but wish they had fairies and magic in them, then you’ll love SORCERER TO THE CROWN. At his wit’s end, Zacharias Wythe, freed slave, eminently proficient magician, and Sorcerer Royal of the Unnatural Philosophers-one of the most respected organizations throughout all of Britain-ventures to the border of Fairyland to discover why England’s magical stocks are drying up.īut when his adventure brings him in contact with a most unusual comrade, a woman with immense power and an unfathomable gift, he sets on a path which will alter the nature of sorcery in all of Britain-and the world at large…

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