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Stargazy Pie
Stargazy Pie | Victoria Goddard
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A Dozen or So Years after the Fall of Astandalas Magic is out of fashion. Good manners never are. Jemis Greenwing returned from university with a broken heart, a bad cold, and no prospects beyond a problematic inheritance and a job at the local bookstore. Ragnor Bella is a placid little market town on the road to nowhere, where Jemis' family affairs have always been the main source of gossip. He is determined to keep his head down under the cover of his new employer's devastating mastery of social etiquette, but falls to the temptation of resuming his friendship with Mr. Dart of Dartington-land agent to his older brother the squire and beloved local daredevil-who is delighted to have Jemis' company for what is, he assures him, only a very small adventure. Ragnor Bella is known as the dullest town in the whole continent, after all. Jemis expected the cut direct. The secret societies, criminal gangs, and cult to the old gods come as a complete surprise. Book One of the Greenwing & Dart series, fantasies of manners-and mischief.
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humouress
Stargazy Pie | Victoria Goddard

Jemis Greenwing returned to Ragnor Bella from university in disgrace and has to adapt to reduced circumstances and former high society acquaintances avoiding him. It‘s an engaging story but I‘m reading it on my Kindle and finding the smaller page size distracting.

This story takes place after the Fall but (4.5 chapters in) I‘m still frustrated in trying to discover the fall of *what*?

humouress I assumed Goddard invented it but stargazy pie seems to be a Cornish delicacy.

Wikipedia: Stargazy pie is a Cornish dish made of baked pilchards (sardines; although there are a few variations using other types of fish), along with eggs and potatoes, covered with a pastry crust. The unique feature of stargazy pie is fish heads (and sometimes tails) protruding through the crust, so that they appear to be gazing to the stars.
(edited) 8mo
humouress Picks up around chapter 9 with a midnight adventure and some of the details start to finally be filled in (university, family, magic). It was fun before; now it's interesting. And maybe there's another reason for Jemis's uncontrollable sneezing rather than it being a remnant from his illness. (What illness? 🤗 Quite.) (edited) 7mo
humouress Ch 29 🫣 Another one where I was convinced something bad was going to happen and I couldn't look. Of course I went back and finished reading afterwards. (edited) 7mo
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I read this after reading the two books in Goddard's next series and it does suffer a bit from comparison as Goddard is clearly getting better and better.
There are still lots of great elements, an engaging cast of characters, lots of action. But it has a fairly chaotic plot. I'm not sure if I had read this book first if I would have read on in the series, which would have been a pity because I loved the rest of the series.