Will Do Magic for Small Change
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Average rating2.5
“[A] beautifully multifaceted story... Highly recommended.” —The New York Times Andrea Hairston's historical fantasy Will Do Magic for Small Change presents a tale of alien science and earthbound magic and the secrets families keep from each other. Cinnamon Jones dreams of stepping on stage and acting her heart out like her famous grandparents, Redwood and Wildfire. But she’s always been theatrically challenged. That won’t necessarily stop her! But her family life is a tangle of mysteries and secrets, and nobody is telling her the whole truth. Before her brother died, he gave Cinnamon The Chronicles of the Great Wanderer—a tale of a Dahomean warrior woman and an alien from another dimension who perform at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. They are a story of magic or alien science, but the connection to Cinnamon's past is unmistakable. When an act of violence wounds her family, Cinnamon and her theatre squad determine to solve the mysteries and bring her worlds crashing together. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
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3.5 stars!!!
The concept of this book had me instantly interested but it kind of fell flat for me. I really enjoyed the chapters following the main character, a queer woman in the 1980s, but was less interested in the chapters following the “alien” (not sure that's what the character was, but it surely seemed like it). I enjoyed the overall book-within-a-book concept but I those chapters just pulled me out of the part of the story I was enjoying. I will say, this is a very light SciFi which was nice since I have a hard time reading very intense SciFi. The audiobook narator did a very good job and I was never confused about which POV I was following.
Thank you to RB Media, Recorded Books, and NetGalley for providing me with an Audiobook copy to review.
