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Witherward (Witherward, #1)

Hannah Mathewson

Start date: April 1, 2021

Finish date: April 30, 2021

Discussion: Group Reads

Discussion leader: Lindsay

Why we're reading this: Group Read Fantasy - April 2021
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Apr 11, 2021 Lindsay rated it really liked it

Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, 2021-sfbr-challenge

Ilsa is a stage magician's assistant in 19th century London, a step-up from being a pick-pocket street kid and runaway from an orphanage. She also can do actual magic, changing her shape into nearly any creature or person. When she is saved from bizarre attackers and taken to an alternate London in the Witherward, she discovers she's actually the long-lost daughter of the ruling family of the Changelings, one of six magical factions that live in the alternate world.

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Jun 02, 2021 Lata rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: auth-f, kids-and-ya, sf-f-h, x2021-read

Reminiscent of V.E. Scwab’s Darker Side of Magic with its parallel Londons, with ours known as the Otherworld, and the other as the Witherward, this story is about an orphaned street urchin/magician’s assistant Ilsa who discovers she’s the long lost daughter of an important family in Witherward. A family who leads the Changelings (shapeshifters) who reside in one quarter of Witherward’s London. There are other magical groups: Sorcerers, Oracles, Whisperers and Wraiths, each occupying a different ...more

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