SFF

The Scholar and the Last Faerie Door

Redhook: Orbit. Oct. 2024. 464p. ISBN 9780316383905. pap. $19.99. FANTASY
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When Matthew Hall returned home to his family’s farm after World War I, he exposed one of the greatest secrets of the late war: that a magical society has existed for centuries and that the war ended because one of those mages opened a door that should never have been opened and let a fae rampage over the battlefield. Matthew is the only survivor—and magical society wishes he weren’t. His sister, desperate to cure the curse that has struck him down and to escape the confines of their small town and tiny farm, embarks on a quest to breach the bastions of magical power so that she can learn enough to break the curse. She enters a world that tries to break her instead and learns that it’s founded on a gigantic theft and a huge lie that she and her friends have the power to take down, if they dare.
VERDICT Parry’s (The Magician’s Daughter) latest will enthrall those who loved the post-WWI high-magic high society of Freya Marske’s “Last Binding” series. Highly recommended for readers looking for an immersive world of power politics, magical societies, and world-shattering consequences.
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