“Her quill was her sword. If she worked with all her effort, surely she could wield it for the woman who had trained her; for the woman who had plucked her from a narrow world and immersed her in a realm of leather-bound books, debates about epic poetry, trips in the carriage to the Axium…
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The talent for sorcery in women is a curse when it ought to be a blessing. -The Midnight Bargain As someone who really enjoyed C.L. Polk’s World Fantasy Award-winning novel Witchmark, I was eager to read their novel, The Midnight Bargain. Much like Witchmark, it has everything I enjoy most in this genre – A…
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When I heard C.L. Polk’s World Fantasy Award Winning novel Witchmark being described as “Downton Abbey with magic,” I knew I had to pick it up. It’s true that Witchmark has many things that Downton fans will love – most notably Edwardian England inspired worldbuilding. But, there’s other surprises in store for readers as well…
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Who are period dramas for, and why should we care? (Note: Minor spoilers below for Season 6 of Downton Abbey) LP Hartley famously wrote in his 1953 novel The Go Between: “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” However, I first heard the line uttered in the 2020 Starz show Belgravia,…
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