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Sorcery & Cecelia: or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot (Cecelia and Kate, #1)
by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer
by Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer
** spoiler alert **
Oh, Patricia Wrede. I've loved you since the Dealing with Dragons books. And Caroline Stevermer. I'm sure you're magnificent too. Here. Have some pie. Or a biscuit.
This book is told through letters from the two main characters to each other, Cecelia and Kate, and it's told over the course of a London social season (which used to be a big deal, dunno if it is anymore) in 1817. Tidbit of trivia that makes the book even cooler: the authors originally started it out as a writing exercise to each other, one wrote one letter and vice versa until a plot popped out. How cool is that?! and also I hope you're paying attention [info]emailitin . So Kate's gone to London for her Season that she really shouldn't be getting because she's a clutz-monkey and her aunt figures "who'd want her". Cecelia's stuck on the family's country estate because she's not cool enough to get a season AT ALL and the two girls write to each other to pass the time.
Only magical hijinks are affoot and if you've read any of Wrede's other books you know wizards ALWAYS play a huge part. Only, these aren't your average JK Harry Potty wizards. Hell. No. These wizards are wizards that taint enchanted chocolate pots adn turn people into oak trees and send you through a portal to a magic garden that'll EAT YOUR FACE OFF, SO THERE. Not for the faint of heart, is what I'm saying.
Meanwhile, both girls have their hands full with a particular guy who keeps mucking up their sleuthing works to figure out what exactly is going on with the enchanted chocolate pots and faux engagements (you did NOT dump a girl after asking her hand in marriage in Edwardian England, MAJOR party foul, mister) and what not all while trying not to get hexed or turned into trees or something.
Oh, and they can't let their puritanical aunt know anything about magic as she thinks it's teh ebil and she'll have the girls stuck in the country so fast you'll be singing Jimmy Crack Corn or whatever it is you sing on the English countryside. Greensleeves? I dunno. Something English. Lots of awesome hijinks and the mystery's actually pretty solid so I can't wait for the sequel The Grand Tour which is waiting for me at home.
This book is told through letters from the two main characters to each other, Cecelia and Kate, and it's told over the course of a London social season (which used to be a big deal, dunno if it is anymore) in 1817. Tidbit of trivia that makes the book even cooler: the authors originally started it out as a writing exercise to each other, one wrote one letter and vice versa until a plot popped out. How cool is that?! and also I hope you're paying attention [info]emailitin . So Kate's gone to London for her Season that she really shouldn't be getting because she's a clutz-monkey and her aunt figures "who'd want her". Cecelia's stuck on the family's country estate because she's not cool enough to get a season AT ALL and the two girls write to each other to pass the time.
Only magical hijinks are affoot and if you've read any of Wrede's other books you know wizards ALWAYS play a huge part. Only, these aren't your average JK Harry Potty wizards. Hell. No. These wizards are wizards that taint enchanted chocolate pots adn turn people into oak trees and send you through a portal to a magic garden that'll EAT YOUR FACE OFF, SO THERE. Not for the faint of heart, is what I'm saying.
Meanwhile, both girls have their hands full with a particular guy who keeps mucking up their sleuthing works to figure out what exactly is going on with the enchanted chocolate pots and faux engagements (you did NOT dump a girl after asking her hand in marriage in Edwardian England, MAJOR party foul, mister) and what not all while trying not to get hexed or turned into trees or something.
Oh, and they can't let their puritanical aunt know anything about magic as she thinks it's teh ebil and she'll have the girls stuck in the country so fast you'll be singing Jimmy Crack Corn or whatever it is you sing on the English countryside. Greensleeves? I dunno. Something English. Lots of awesome hijinks and the mystery's actually pretty solid so I can't wait for the sequel The Grand Tour which is waiting for me at home.
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