The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfors
Rating: 🍁🍁🍁
I've been reading a lot of gritty, darkish stuff lately, and wanted to read something a bit on the lighter side. The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfors fit the bill almost perfectly. This book is well written, with believable characters and an element of whimsy that was exactly what I needed. I mean, the story takes place in a world without chocolate, and explores what happens when one of society's most marginalized persons becomes the only one who can create more, through a magical ability given to her by a dying cow. Does this require some serious suspension of disbelief? Absolutely. But it's a fairy tale. I'm not exactly expecting hardcore realism here.
And it's definitely worth the effort. Without getting all preachy and in your face, Selfors manages to weave a pointed commentary on our own consumerist society, and the lies that those on the inside (including me) tell themselves to help ignore what's happening on the margins, throughout the whimsical premise.
While I probably won't be reading it again, this was an enjoyable, refreshing read.
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