Chris, the Dalek King’s Reviews > Lessons in Enchantment > Status Update

You know what I hate about books like this? It's not the lazy writting/worldbuilding or the "oh I have a boner I must be in love" romance arcs. It's the fact the female protag is such an unlikable caricature of the Ideal Feminist Woman that I keep ending up siding with the patriarchal shitbags.

They're not your kids. It's not charming to refuse to sign a employment contract and then remove them from their home

your wards are not only gifted, they are exceptionally intelligent.

Like three pages back one of the annoying snots was using his magic to hold his sister over the edge of the roof of this house. He thought it'd be fine because surely she could fly! I'll grant you gifted, but no, ma'am, I will not budge an inch on their so-called intelligence.

And, yes, I am hate reading this book now.

Drew winced as the governess launched into a nursery song that his wards knew well enough to scream at the top of their lungs, however untunefully.

I will never understand people who find things like this charming. Granted, I'm very much in the "please, for the love of all the gods, stop subjecting the rest of us to your annoying children" camp. I was made to be the crotchety old person in these books.