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| Trade paperback, 167 pages Published 2019 Acquired May 2020 Read July 2020 |
This was cute, as Ursula Vernon usually is, and it was meaningful, as Ursula Vernon usually is. A twelve-year-old mage is sent on a quest to bring rain to his drought-ridden village, with only an armadillo familiar and three spells to his name. It's about the way large groups of people can think, and how that can make people worse than they really are, and it's about the toughness of doing the right thing when no one else will, and when it will have a terrible cost. Plus the armadillo is pretty funny, and there's a teenage boy with a compulsion to make harps out of the corpses of murder victims that shriek in the presence of their murderers. Dark stuff, communicated lightly, and very good, as Ursula Vernon usually is.
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