The Book Witch
If you love books about books ... here you go. Rainy March is a book witch, who along with her adorable feline familiar Koshka, protects books and stories from those intent on making them disappear. While this story uses fantasy and magical realism to make its point, it's clearly a commentary on the growing book banning movements and the threat to silent voices that some unfortunate people in power deem not worthy of being heard. As is her style if you've read her first two books, Shaffer dips into the classics once again, this time using elements of Alice in Wonderland , Nancy Drew , Pride & Prejudice and others, with the magical realism aspect being that Rainy and Koshka can travel in and out of stories as needed to restore a book whose words are suddenly disappearing or whose characters have gone missing. It's a fun premise and that was my favorite aspect of the book. Another entertaining element was British detective Duke, Rainy's long-time book crush from the ...
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