A Sorceress Comes to Call
T. Kingfisher
T. Kingfisher again masters the darkness in this compelling retelling of Grimm’s Goose Girl. Not being familiar with the original I went into A Sorceress Comes to Call happily embraced by Kingfisher’s beautiful prose. What this book has—is claws! As soon as the situation with our heroine, Cordelia, is clear, the pages fly and I become more and more desperate to find out what’s going to happen. The layers fall away showing more and more about the dangers that lie ahead.
I loved Hester as a character and the uniqueness of her friends. The paranormal elements were artfully done and really I loved everything about the book until about the last ten percent. There I have wishes that the resolution might have been different. When the darkness lingering in the shadows throughout the opening blossoms towards the end, with it comes the final battle which I had hoped for even a more extreme showdown - but then I also didn’t really want the book to end at all. A Sorceress Comes to Call is a book that lives sharply in memory with characters to care about, and be concerned for, and a heroine you want to hug.
Thanks to NetGalley and Tor Books for providing an Advance Reader’s Copy for an honest review.
Publication - August 2024 Available here
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