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The Familiar: A Novel

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Leigh Bardugo・・Ended

Updated: April 9, 2024

Content length: 400 pages

language: English

Source: amazon

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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * #1 INDIE BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “An immersive, sensual experience.” —The New York Times "Essential." —The Washington Post GOODREADS CHOICE AWARD FINALIST * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Kirkus, Women's World, Town & Country Magazine, NYPL From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age. In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to improve the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

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📚 Why We Recommend It

Leigh 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.