When The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker was proposed in the book club, I was enthusiastic about the topic and intrigued by the description. A woman’s magic and fantasy book that sounded like it would speak to me in some way.
Nora, a under-achieving graduate student finds herself wandering lost in the forest while attending a wedding. She slips into a magical medieval world where she is force-married to a wicked dragon-fairy. She eventually runs away to an old wizard who teaches her magic, and the real story begins.
The world is misogynistic and borrows heavily from other magical stories. The last three chapters were all about setting up for the sequels. This would have been better as a stand-along story. This was an OK-read but I had higher expectations.
