Waggoner, C.M.: The Ruthless Lady's Guide to Wizardry (2021)
This is book 2, which I didn't know when I bought it and it didn't matter at all.
(Book 1 is Unnatural Magic.)
Dellaria Wells, independent fire-witch, wants to keep her old mother off the streets and off the drugs, but mostly she wants to earn or scam enough money to pay her rent, before the landlady curses her with pustules "mostly on the face".
This magic-ridden England has a remarkably free-thinking society with regard to sex and marriage, even with trolls, but there are still arranged marriages among the rich. And even the better-trained wizards can have magical accidents.
Meanwhile, the non-magical can still earn an honest living, or a dishonest one. Lots of action.
I intend to look for book 1.
This is book 2, which I didn't know when I bought it and it didn't matter at all.
(Book 1 is Unnatural Magic.)
Dellaria Wells, independent fire-witch, wants to keep her old mother off the streets and off the drugs, but mostly she wants to earn or scam enough money to pay her rent, before the landlady curses her with pustules "mostly on the face".
This magic-ridden England has a remarkably free-thinking society with regard to sex and marriage, even with trolls, but there are still arranged marriages among the rich. And even the better-trained wizards can have magical accidents.
Meanwhile, the non-magical can still earn an honest living, or a dishonest one. Lots of action.
I intend to look for book 1.
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