And it's a lucky thing, too, because Carbonel needs Rosemary and John's help. It’s just such a classy, solid story and such lovely stuff.Description: The third and final book in the Carbonel trilogy "There are many kinds of magic.and once magic is in your blood it attracts more magic," says the royal cat Carbonel at the start of "Carbonel and Calidor." Sure enough, Carbonel's human friends Rosemary and John soon encounter magic in the form of a ring set with a fiery red stone that grants wishes to whoever wears it. The chapters are self-contained and deeply satisfying in their own right and although a more modern audience might be unfamiliar with some of the vocabulary of the time, it’s written so tightly that the reader just rolls along with it. She’s clearly familiar with what it takes to write a story but also, I think, in what it takes to read a story. There’s something very classic and confident about this, Sleigh’s debut. Give me a slightly stroppy partner in crime who will do anything for their friend and I’m there. There’s also something very particular about a slightly sarcastic and curmudgeonly magical chum. There’s something very particularly British (and very particularly mid-twentieth century British) about magic being found on your doorstep. What I liked, however, was how immediate and everyday this magic was. The spell must be broken by Rosemary who, in trying to find extra money to bring home to her impoverished mother, finds herself embroiled in mysterious and magical goings on. I like the way that libraries do that sometimes they give you the things that you did not quite mean to get and yet knew you always wanted.Ĭarbonel is a cat and he is under a spell. Carbonel has been on my radar for some time and so when I spotted it, I grabbed. I had prepared for this day with a visit to the library, picking things that I thought might be in my wheelhouse and things that I had been meaning to read for some while and yet never got around to it. When it is a hot day, we turn to the shadows and we read the books. Carbonel: The King of the Cats by Barbara Sleigh
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