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kareilaI got my Kindle reader in the mail yesterday and promptly stayed up half the night reading this in bed, which wasn't the outcome I predicted or necessarily wanted, but yay I guess?
As in other DWJ stories I've read, the book introduces us to a likable but relatively meek protagonist and then proceeds to complicate their situation beyond credibility until they are finally pressured into discovering their inner strength/heroism/truth/etc. In this case the protagonist is Eric Chant, known as Cat because he's said to have nine lives. But Cat doesn't know that in his world, having nine lives is a rare but literally true thing that can happen to people who only exist in one facet of the multiverse, making their potential magic exponentially more powerful than that of the garden variety witches and necromancers that are common in the population.
Raised as orphans, Cat and his obnoxious older sister Gwendolen are eventually taken to live with another branch of the magical Chant family, under the auspices of the revered enchanter known as Chrestomanci. Gwendolen has her sights set on becoming a powerful witch, but when Chrestomanci forbids teaching her any additional magic until she is older, they become locked in a battle of wills and Cat, who can't seem to work any magic at all, is caught in the middle. The tangle of enchantments that follows doesn't seem like it could ever be put right, but everything works out in the end, as it generally does.
As in other DWJ stories I've read, the book introduces us to a likable but relatively meek protagonist and then proceeds to complicate their situation beyond credibility until they are finally pressured into discovering their inner strength/heroism/truth/etc. In this case the protagonist is Eric Chant, known as Cat because he's said to have nine lives. But Cat doesn't know that in his world, having nine lives is a rare but literally true thing that can happen to people who only exist in one facet of the multiverse, making their potential magic exponentially more powerful than that of the garden variety witches and necromancers that are common in the population.
Raised as orphans, Cat and his obnoxious older sister Gwendolen are eventually taken to live with another branch of the magical Chant family, under the auspices of the revered enchanter known as Chrestomanci. Gwendolen has her sights set on becoming a powerful witch, but when Chrestomanci forbids teaching her any additional magic until she is older, they become locked in a battle of wills and Cat, who can't seem to work any magic at all, is caught in the middle. The tangle of enchantments that follows doesn't seem like it could ever be put right, but everything works out in the end, as it generally does.
