"An Unkindness" and The Time-Traveling Popcorn Ball

I've finished the second novella in A Sinister Quartet--Jessica Wick's "An Unkindness." It's fabulous in a completely different way from "The Twice-Drowned Saint," and isn't that what's great about a good anthology? This is a good anthology.

Ravenna is the younger sister of Aliver, the heir to their peninsular kingdom, which has a bloody past and still has things like bride tasks to win a hand in marriage, but also has tourists and lawyers--a sort of early twentieth century, maybe? Aliver has al...