Favorite Books of 2015:  Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho

↳ “Magic was too strong a force for women’s frail bodies - too potent a brew for their weak minds - and so, especially at a time when everyone must be anxious to preserve what magical resource England still possessed, magic must be forbidden to women.Yet Zacharias had seen too many hags in kitchens and nurseries, too many herbwomen and hedgewitches in villages around the country, not to know that women were perfectly capable of magic - at least, women of the labouring classes. Among their betters it was genteel to turn a blind eye to such illicit activities. One would not like one’s own wife or daughter to indulge in witchcraft, but it did not serve to be overscrupulous when feminine magic could prove so convenient in one’s servants.”