Charlie Holmberg's fantasy novel Spellbreaker (#1,355) proved to be a much more entertaining traveling companion.
Spending her days as a general factotum for an artist who has taken her in from the workhouse, Elsie Camden has powers of her own - to break magic spells cast on objects. She feels she is doing good, but there is a problem; Elsie is not licensed to break the spells, so if she is caught, there can be severe consequences, including a death sentence.
She is content to work in the shadows until she comes up against Bacchus Kelsey, a handsome Jamaican about to complete his own magical mastership in Victorian London. Elsie is afraid of the power he holds over her, yet she senses that he is bound up by a spell cast unbeknownst to him. Can they work together to defeat the cabal busy murdering magicians and stealing their priceless spell books?
We won't know until we read the sequel Spellmaker!
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