As the new Chancellor, Grace must balance many competing interests on the head of a pin, and in the meantime she’s falling recklessly in love with one of those dirt-digging journalists. The nation’s equivalent of electric power no longer works, snowstorms of unbelievable strength threaten the city, and journalists are starting to discover the unspeakable events of Witchmark. The story follows Grace’s attempts to hold her country together through a crisis of several dimensions. Polk elects to switch narrators, telling Stormsong through Grace, sister to Witchmark‘s narrator Miles. Although the book reads a little predictably, and attaches to its predecessor strongly enough to be difficult to understand at first, it’s a marvelously readable novel set in a fun world, mixing and matching elements from a variety of subgenres.Ĭ.L. Its sequel, Stormsong, has been highly anticipated by readers and reviewers alike, and I believe they will be satisfied. Witchmark was one of 2018’s critical darlings in genre fiction.
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