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Book Review: ‘Without a Summer’ by Mary Robinette Kowal

Many of Jane Austen’s contemporary readers consider her magical. Mary Robinette Kowal went one step further and made her so. Jane Ellsworth, the Austen-inspired heroine of three Kowal novels to date, lives the kind of British Regency era life an Austen character might have, with a delightful exception: She’s a glamourist, a professional magician who

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Without a Summer was nominated for RT Book Reviews’ April Seal Of Excellence

Well, this is a lovely way to start off the novel’s life cycle, don’t you think? “Kowal has always had a talent for integrating historical fact into her series, but her use of the cold summer of 1816 coupled with the original creation of the “coldmongers union” transforms a simple weather phenomenon into a fascinating

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