A Sorceress Comes To Call

[psocoptera]

A Sorceress Comes To Call, T Kingfisher, 2024 novel. A very tense and anxious book, which maybe I shouldn't have read on a tense and anxious day*, or maybe that was perfect. This is a typically Vernon fairytale (I won't say which one, although if you know fairytale references she tells you almost immediately) with things inside-out and backwards, and I think it's my favorite of those she's done in awhile. Like, I enjoyed both Nettle & Bone and Thornhedge, but didn't love either - Nettle & Bone I recall ending a little awkwardly, and Thornhedge had some murky motivation. This felt really tight and compelling (and utterly chilling, omg). Minor spoiler:
There's a really funny bit in the Acknowledgements where Vernon is like "thank you to my friend for getting me hooked on Regency romances! I ended up writing this!" (okay, what she said exactly was "well, this isn't technically a Regency, but it's in the same ballpark, right?") which, like, if you look at it a *different* upside-down and sideways, was like, oh, I see what she's doing there playing with those tropes in that way, and yet is hilarious, that this is what you get when Regency goes through the Vernonification process, in much the way that the Paladin books have a lot of severed heads for a romance series.

*(I have new storm doors now and they're good and I don't even think we ended up with too many bugs in the house during the extended periods of doors standing wide open, AND the weird smell I was smelling from the boiler has been duly checked out and a part replaced, but *two* different people coming in and out and also having a Permanent Change made to the house was a *lot* and boy did my brain want to tell me we had to Stay On Guard and Had Also Probably Chosen Poorly.)

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[ruthling]

i need new storm doors, too. do you recommend your person?

[psocoptera]

Yes, I think so! Caveat that we've only had the doors for like 24 hours so if we're only going to find out about a problem in high temperatures/low temperatures/heavy rain/high winds/the passage of time that hasn't happened yet, but he communicated promptly (and by email!), showed up when he said he was going to, and to my eye did a nice job putting up the doors. Dennis Grynkiewicz, DPG Home Improvement, dennis@dpghomeimprovementllc.com . Does Andersen doors, gave me a catalog to pick stuff from but then when I said I had gone to Home Depot to see things in person and was the Home Depot 300 the same as the catalog 8 he said he could do those. May have been more expensive than buying installation service from Home Depot (I'm not sure how much because Home Depot's pricing is "from $178", which, like, how *far* "from" it?) but on the other hand he came out twice to measure and check out the doors and to figure out how to deal with a slightly odd situation on the back, so I felt like I was getting more expertise than having to buy the right door myself and hoping Home Depot sent someone good. Good luck!