{"id":14128,"date":"2023-08-09T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14128"},"modified":"2023-08-09T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T14:09:23","slug":"a-quest-an-escape-something-close-to-magic-is-needed-by-emma-mills-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=14128","title":{"rendered":"A quest, an escape, SOMETHING CLOSE TO MAGIC is needed! by Emma Mills (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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When Aurelie’s feckless parents used up all their money, she was forced to leave school and magic lessons to become apprentice to a miserly baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Use her Seeker skills again? Dashing finder Iliana convinces her to try – for a percentage of the bounty. Everyone knows that each magic spell used has a consequence of opposites\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They set out through the dreaded Underwood to find Elias, son of a royal servant. Along the way, Aurelie is pulled underground by an ancient being, rescued by Quad (a troll<\/a> friend of Iliana), and has a vision of Elias nearby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But instead of Elias, the three young women find Prince Hapless’s coach under attack!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To throw off the kidnappers, they continue roundabout in the Underwood, rather than take Hapless directly onward to the Scholar’s City. The prince is funny and nice and honest about being a very terrible student of magic, only living up to his court-given royal name now and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What?! The newspaper says Iliana and Aurelie kidnapped Hapless! But the attackers wore palace guard uniforms\u2026 something’s fishy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They magically change the prince’s appearance and head for the capital instead. He and Aurelie hate to part, but promise to write\u2026 back to boring real life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Iliana appears at the bakery several weeks later, worried about a plot against Hapless at his sister’s ball, Aurelie must decide – see the man she knows she cannot be with or abandon her chance to become a master baker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pretender grabbing for the throne, unrequited affections, old magic and new magic – a worthy tale indeed!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What magic spell would you choose, if you knew it could boomerang?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Something Close to Magic \/ Emma Mills. Atheneum, 2023. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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