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Last week I finally went to my local library and got a library card. I feel a little bad for not doing it long ago but before the pandemic, they didn't have weekend hours and only evening hours on wednesdays. Difficult to actually get to when you work relatively regular hours. And then I emailed them back in February or something about getting a card and they wanted me to go in person and get it.

lol no

since I was more then two weeks past my second vaccine last week and I was out and about for work, then finished that work early, I dropped by the library. The library is an old church and they've kept it up very well, it's very pretty too. Got my library card and picked up 5 books, which I have a month to read.

I started with Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho and omg I loved it. It's a fantasy book set in something similar to 1700s England, with a sorcerer as the main character. The plot is excellent and the characters are delightful, the two main characters are people of color and it is both plot relevant and handled pretty well. There is racism and colonialism talked about because it is 1700s England with the main character as a black man so there's that.

The other main character is a women and she is also quite delightful.

I really recommend it, the plot wrapup and epilogue were excellent and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The description on the author's website describes it as "Sorcerer to The Crown is my first novel, a historical fantasy set in Regency London, featuring magic, romance and lots of hijinks."

The only thing that threw me was the formality of the language used but this is high society and once I got used to it, it wasn't too weird.

I'm going to check out some of her other books because this one was excellent.