A Sorceress Comes to Call

Not my favorite T. Kingfisher - one of the two FMCs was too passive (understandably so, but painful to read so much from her pitiful POV), and the book felt longer than it needed to be. But I'm always in favor of a middle-aged FMC with bad knees who takes on the Big Bad armed with nothing but her wits and a really good library. Her two besties of similar age are awesome too. Plus let's hear it for a valiant flock of geese! A Sorceress would have been better if it were shorter and a bit leaner, which was underlined for me by a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to the note-perfect [b:Nettle & Bone 56179377 Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1645110008l/56179377.SY75.jpg 87513158]. But I will never regret spending time with T. Kingfisher characters and their wonderful sense of humor. [Hester] was almost ready to set the book aside out of sheer exhaustion when the author launched into a lament about so few of his countrymen believing in the “Great Flood of Devilreys that now Surround us” and how “such as was Common Knowledge in days past is not Treated as the Base Ramblings of Superstitione and Rumore.” (Where is he getting all of these e's? Hester wondered. Did they simply have more of them lying around back then?)