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For seven years, Maeve Abenthy has been hiding. She’s been hiding her true identity, moving from place to place to evade anyone connecting her to the horrific crimes of her father. But now she’s just received a letter that could change everything: the anonymous sender simply tells her, Your father was innocent.
Everyone knows Jonathan Abenthy was responsible for the loss of many people’s lives and access to a whole world. But what if he wasn’t the guilty party? Maeve could come out of hiding. So she steals an identity and poses as an Otherwhere Post apprentice. She’ll learn scriptomancy, the same art her father trained in, and be able to access the other world that is still open to couriers. It’s only accessible to couriers who know how to enchant letters and other writing and deliver them to the recipients of those letters. She doesn’t want to really become a courier, but the magic training and access to old records will just get her enough skills and information to find out the truth.
Unfortunately, of course, even as she tries to lay low at the training program, her friendly roommate will just not leave her be. Worse, a skilled mentor with high-up connections in the scriptomancy world won’t ignore her either. She simply cannot make friends and endanger either those friends or her quest. Because not long into her investigations, she begins to receive threatening letters. Finding the truth could cost Maeve her life.
I so enjoyed this world where some people can use writing to harness different types of magic. The story is a good mystery, and the relationships slowly blossom over the course of the book. Maeve is prickly but understandably so, and it’s rather nice to see her let other people in as she slowly learns to trust.
If you’re looking for a clean and fairly low-intensity magical story, The Otherwhere Post suits very well.
Rated: Mild. Profanity includes a few instances of moderate profanity, fewer than 10 uses of mild language, and about 15 instances of the name of Deity in vain. Sexual content is limited to some kissing. Violence involves deaths and injuries by various means, but nothing intense.
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