Language: G (0 swears, 0 “f”); Mature Content: G; Violence: PG
BUYING ADVISORY: EL, MS - ADVISABLE
AUDIENCE APPEAL: AVERAGE
Being First Daughter of the Magister means that Una has meals to eat and lessons to attend to, but she’s been lonely ever since her mother, the Magistrix, died. Julien never knew his mother, but his Baba made sure Julien never wanted for love. Their worlds start to fall apart when the Magister remarries and has a new baby while Baba is wrongfully thrown in prison. These two eleven-year-olds must help each other with their unusual talents to rebuild happiness.
Una and Julien’s story has a distinct fairytale feel though it is not a retelling of a classic story. Maybe it feels like a fairytale because there are unexplainable gifts that no one questions or because love is highlighted as the most important thing to the protagonists. Whatever the reason, this story was comforting to settle into, like drinking a perfect-temperature hot cocoa in winter.
Reviewer: Carolina Herdegen
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