{"id":24896,"date":"2025-09-01T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24896"},"modified":"2026-09-13T10:39:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T14:39:53","slug":"shade-spells-with-strangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24896","title":{"rendered":"Shade Spells with Strangers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shade Spells with Strangers<\/em><\/a> (2025) Sarah Wallace<\/a> & S. O. Callahan<\/a> (Fae & Human Relations #3)<\/p>\n

\"Shade<\/a>Set in London in 1814<\/p>\n

The sequel to Fire Spells Between Friends<\/em> starts at the wedding between Emrys Wrenwhistle and Torquil Pimpernel-Smith, where Silas Rook-Worth and his family are creating the protection spells and area for the wedding.<\/p>\n

Silas\u2019 father, Mr. Rook, took charge when talking to fae customers and Silas took charge when talking to human customers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Keelan Cricket, there for the marriage of his best friend, is a hopeless romantic who has wanted for almost his entire left to fall in love and get married.<\/p>\n

Keelan and Cricket come together briefly, and then assume they will never see one another again, no matter that the compatibility of their magics shocked both of them.<\/p>\n

But Silas is half-fae\/half-human and is one of the people Torquil Pimpernel-Smith communicated with when they started looking for half-fae\/half-humans who would be willing to work with the Council for Fae & Human Relations to discover more about the magic of those who had previously been ignored and even shunned by society.<\/p>\n

Briony and Quince\u2019s mother had died when they were both very young. Mr. Rook later married Ruth, a human woman, and they\u2019d had Silas.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Silas and Cricket meet again, only it has been set by Cricket’s mother that he will be partnered with the very eligible Miss Wilton-Reed in hopes a marriage can be arranged.<\/p>\n

Miss Wilton-Reed is awful.<\/p>\n

Father thought it essential that I make good use of this opportunity. He wants everyone to associate our names with progress and forward-thinking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cricket’s mother is also awful.<\/p>\n

I had a hard time with parts of this story, with Cricket’s acceptance of the marriage his mother was arranging for him, with a woman with whom he has no interest.<\/p>\n

Miss Wilton-Reed would love it, and he hoped that maybe if he wore something that pleased her, she would be nicer to him.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I mean… Just… she’s awful and he just accepts everything as inevitable.<\/p>\n

Things of course work out in the end, but it was a bit hard to take.<\/p>\n

Characters<\/strong>: Keelan Cricket, Silas Rook-Worth, Briony Rook, Quince Rook, Mr. Rook, Ruth, Miss Aveline Wrenwhistle, Mr. Wyndham Wrenwhistle, Mr. Roger Wrenwhistle, Mrs. Iris Wrenwhistle, Emrys Wrenwhistle, Torquil Pimpernel-Smith, Marten, Leonora Pimpernel, Mr. Hedge-Wyck, Mx. Ellery Badger-Thorp, Miss Anise Gloucester-Stone, Mr. Finkle-Finch, Mx. Fern Hillcrest, Mr. Benedict Brooks, Mr. Arlen Buckthorn, Miss Wilton-Reed, Councilmember Barnes, Mr. Sage Ravenwing, Sal Bailey<\/p>\n

Cover by Caras Alexandra<\/p>\n

Rating: 7.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shade Spells with Strangers (2025) Sarah Wallace & S. O. Callahan (Fae & Human Relations #3) Set in London in 1814 The sequel to Fire Spells Between Friends starts at the wedding between Emrys Wrenwhistle and Torquil Pimpernel-Smith, where Silas Rook-Worth and his family are creating the protection spells and area for the wedding. 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