A Fragile Enchantment by Allison SaftMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
I'm guessing that 2025 is the year I'm finding authors on my shelf that I haven't read before, because finding A Fragile Enchantment and reading it now made me fall in love with Allison Saft's writing. The characters were written so well, and the political intrigue was also well-written. Additionally, I actually rooted for Niamh and Kit to get together. I kept side-eyeing Kit's brother, Jack, when he kept coming up with fifty million excuses.
It has balls and magic and sewing and stuff. Still, I have realized that it also has some chronic illness representation, and I really liked how Allison used magic and the chronic illness interestingly, and how Niamh's hair started to change to white each time she exhausted herself or used her magic. I also really love the found family with Niamh, Kit, and Sinclair, and how they did almost everything together. Even though I really didn't like Kit in the first place, he grew on me, and I liked that.
The political intrigue nearly had me snap my head twice, because it was between the Avalinds and the Machlish people, and I wanted to know more about that and how they were settled, and did the Avalinds and the Machlish people are living in peace. I feel like that was kind of left off somewhere, and I wanted to know what happened to them and hoped they are living in peace, and that Jack is a really good king.
At least he was very good with his wife, Sofia, the wife he kept neglecting throughout the book, and she wanted to be seen, but she didn't fight hard enough to do so, in my opinion. I still liked Sofia and now I wanted a book with Sofia in a book one day. But all and all, I really enjoyed myself and I would honestly read this book again.
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