5/5: I’m surprised to realize how much I genuinely enjoyed this. “I just want to save people and then have those people go away and, ideally, not take arsenic again. Is that really so much to ask?” By now I’ve figured out precisely what works for me in most books by T. Kingfisher. It’s her signature narrative voice — the offbeat gentle humor with touches of snark here and there, the slight crotchety side to the inner monologue that often echoes the inner mess of my brain, and the ...
