{"id":22067,"date":"2023-06-09T10:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-09T14:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22067"},"modified":"2023-06-11T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T22:52:42","slug":"a-matter-of-magic-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22067","title":{"rendered":"A Matter of Magic"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Matter of Magic<\/a><\/em> (1988) Patricia C. Wrede<\/a> (Mairelon the Magician) <\/p>\n

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“(B)hey\u2019re mixing magic at random, from the sound of it. Half of it\u2019s Welsh, half of it\u2019s Scottish, and half of it\u2019s cribbed from someone\u2019s classical education, with a few things that are entirely out of someone\u2019s imagination thrown in for good measure. They\u2019ll never get anywhere if that\u2019s the tack they\u2019re taking.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s too many halves,\u201d Kim said, frowning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cMeredith,\u201d Lady Granleigh said pensively. \u201cAre you by chance related to Lord Cecil Meredith?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cM\u2019uncle,\u201d Freddy answered. \u201cStood godfather to me, or so they tell me. I don\u2019t remember it, myself.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel like that passage could have come straight from a Georgette Heyer romance.<\/p>\n

“Also, I do not see that you would explain anything at all to me if I had stayed in London, and I do not wish to perish of the curiosity. So I am glad I came, and I do not care if you look very sour about it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Publisher: Orb Books<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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