The main characters of this fabulous book are the extremely rare happily married couple with no children. There are plenty of Fantasy books that start out with a happy married couple, but that scenario normally does not last long.
There are two POV that narrate this tale Isolde and Warren. Or, Iz and War, as they loving call each other, run a small business of Hexes for sale to get rid of curses. Isolde is added by small fabric bag left to her by her mysterious and absent father. Iz and War's world is turned upside-down when the King's secretary shows up at their door with the news that the King is suffering from a curse.
Bancroft uses a Jane Austin era world. A very familiar setting, with a simple magic system that in on the wane. It is a setting that I am very familiar with, so the learning curve of understanding the magic system is very simple. At its heart, it is a mystery tale. That part of the story has the nice twist and turns you want in a mystery plot.
This was a book I really, really looked forward to. Bancroft's Books of Babel Series is one of my all-time favorites. I am super happy that the originality and prose that made the Books of Babel so readable has returned in this first book of a new series.
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