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When Celia comes into her witch power just in time to curse her brother, the person she loves most in the world, she sets the stage for a quietly powerful tale of honor, war, and the importance of caring about people. There's a bit of a parable here, revealed in a wonderfully surprising moment that made me oooo.

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With The Summer War Novik returns to the realm of fairytales, a nice departure from her Scholomance trilogy which never really quite worked for me. This book is a novella & aspects of it are arguably underdeveloped—some things are introduced & left as they are with little additional explanation—but this quiet book about family, love, sacrifice, & learning from one‘s mistakes is more satisfying than not. I enjoyed it.

A very sweet and intricate fairytale.

Lovely but too short! I‘d guess this is a novella or even novelette rather than a full novel—you may notice it took me only three days to read. It had a fairy-tale feel that I adored but between that and the length it felt almost like a prologue rather than its own story. I wonder if she plans more in this world? It is a fun world (like an inverse Spinning Silver, summerlings rather than Staryk), and wonderful & very smart characters.

Squeeeeee 😍😍😍