Title: Spells and Spaniels
Author: Christine Pope
Date: 2023
Quote: "I was....the woman who would come in and patch things up if the relationship between a familiar and their witch went sideways."
In the fictive world of this novel, witches are real, though most of them have only minor powers. All of them can fly on broomsticks but some, like our narrator Charity, prefer to drive. All of them are female; talents are passed from mother to daughter. In the course of the story Charity learns that witches can have sons, though they use magic to prevent it if possible, because magic powers always go wrong if inherited by males. Witches usually have to marry human men to have children, but some get the opportunity to marry into different varieties of humanoid magic users--one of Charity's friends married an Ice Elf and uses magic power to keep people from seeing his pointed ears.
So Darla, a strong but not very likable witch, leaves her spaniel dog with Charity, and the next thing Charity knows, Darla's reported dead. Milo the spaniel helps Charity solve the murder. Both Milo and Charity are in some danger, but readers know they'll survive.
If this kind of plot amuses you, you're sure to like this book and will want to read the volumes that come before and after it in a series.
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