The Familiar: A Novel
📚 Why We Recommend ItLeigh Bardugo’s standalone historical fantasy immerses readers in sixteenth-century Madrid, where Luzia Cotado—a scullion of concealed Jewish ancestry—finds her small “miracles” leveraged by an ambitious mistress and is thrust into a milieu of seers, alchemists, holy men, and hucksters, a world in which the lines between magic, science, and fraud blur while the fires of the Inquisition make every success a new source of peril; her uneasy alliance with the notorious Guillén Santángel deepens both the danger and the hope.The novel threads real court intrigue into its plot through the figure of Antonio Pérez and the ambitions roiling around Spain’s monarch, so that Luzia’s ascent becomes a collision of power, prejudice, and desire that reads as political thriller, survival tale, and slow-burn romance all at once.
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