The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry

The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry

    • 4.4 • 48 Ratings
    • $4.99

Publisher Description

A Tor.com Reviewers' Choice Best Book of the Year

Sparks fly in this enchanting fantasy novel from the author of Unnatural Magic when a down-and-out fire witch and a young gentlewoman join forces against a deadly conspiracy.


Dellaria Wells, petty con artist, occasional thief, and partly educated fire witch, is behind on her rent in the city of Leiscourt—again. Then she sees the “wanted” sign, seeking Female Persons, of Martial or Magical ability, to guard a Lady of some Importance, prior to the celebration of her Marriage. Delly fast-talks her way into the job and joins a team of highly peculiar women tasked with protecting their wealthy charge from unknown assassins.
 
Delly quickly sets her sights on one of her companions, the confident and well-bred Winn Cynallum. The job looks like nothing but romance and easy money until things take a deadly (and undead) turn. With the help of a bird-loving necromancer, a shapeshifting schoolgirl, and an ill-tempered reanimated mouse named Buttons, Delly and Winn are determined to get the best of an adversary who wields a twisted magic and has friends in the highest of places.

GENRE
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
RELEASED
2021
January 12
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
384
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
3.7
MB

Customer Reviews

Whim1954 ,

OMG a SFF must read!

Enjoyed every chapter. The pages just flew away. Loved it!

straea ,

Like two books smashed into one

This book felt like it was really two books - a tightly plotted, suspenseful fantasy-mystery book in the first third to half of it, and then a meandering morass of stuff that seemed not to really matter in the end in the remainder of the book. The second part could have been one-tenth the length and fit better with the beginning, or it could have been cut out altogether. I personally also found the way the story was written in the voice of the main character (although she wasn’t narrator) to be very annoying as, like the toffs in the book, I found all her made-up words etc to be irritating rather than charming.

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