Spell Sweeper

 

My Thoughts:

Truth be told, I was too late to request this ARC from Net Galley as an ebook. The only option I had was to grab the audiobook version, however, this is not a preview of the audio book. Instead this is a Voice Galley which means that the book is read by a synthetic voice only for review use. I already have a hard time carving time for audiobooks, so this method of listening to a synthetic voice is definitely NOT my cup of tea. At least I tried. But I will never do that again.

STILL, I wanted to read this book because look at the cover and read the description from the publisher. This is right up my alley and I know many middle grade fantasy readers will love this so on the cover and the description alone, I stuck it out with robot voice. Making the recording go faster or slower did not help either, but Iʻm sure the real audiobook is fabulous because this is a fun story. Cara Moone (love her name) has attitude galore. She reminds me of Pippi Longstocking or Anne of Green Gables but with more sass. Cara's life is not fair and I did not come to a satisfying end, but perhaps there is more to come. I hope to see Cara older, a little more self reflective, but that does not come until high school and beyond. 

From the Publisher:

Fans of Nevermoor and the School for Good and Evil will love this standalone middle grade fantasy featuring a failed young wizard and her chaotically fun cleanup crew.

Cara Moone is a wizard—and she’s basically flunked out of wizard school. Now she’s in training to be a MOP, a.k.a. Magical Occurrence Purger, a.k.a. it’s Cara’s job to sweep up the hazardous dust a real wizard’s spells leave behind.

A real wizard, that is, like Harlee Wu, the so-called “Chosen One” destined to save the magical world. But when one of Harlee’s spells goes awry and leaves behind a rift in the fabric of magic itself, it'll take more than magic to clean up that mess. Luckily, messes are kind of Cara’s thing.

Packed with humor, adventure, and attitude, Lee Edward Födi’s twist on a school of magic is delightfully dysfunctional and fantastically fun.

Author: Lee Edward Födi

Publisher: Harper 

Publication Date November 30, 2021