The House Witch

My first foray into cozy fantasy was a success!

This was a really cute little story. While there is a sort of over-arching plot happening, it's mostly in the background. Most of this book is just slice-of-life and I think that worked really well. Just watching Fin and his found family get into shenanigans for 400 pages was unexpectedly delightful. 

I have to admit that the kitchen knights were the break out stars for me. It's kinda rare to establish characters as these douchy, sexist assholes and then put in the character work to redeem them, to see them grow as people and evolve. I really enjoyed that part of the book and just the whole found family that the kitchen crew turned into.

I really liked Fin's magic. The broader magic system in this world seems to be the standard elemental stuff, nothing new there, but the mutated witches are really interesting. I wish we'd gotten to see more of them besides just Fin and his mom but I thought Fin's powers were really unique.

The author made some choices in the story that I'm not sure I agree with so I don't know if I will continue this series, but this was a lovely little book!!