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I want characters that I like, hopefully adore, I want the love, I want the rawness and I will admit that I want the sex.ĭid you notice there that I didn’t actually say anything about the gender of the characters? That is because really to me it doesn’t matter. As a lover of the romance genre, I know what I like and what I am looking for in a romance story. But I would dare to say that I am a prolific romance reader (I read approx 150 – 200 romance books a year). In fact the only MM books that I have ever read have been written by Kindle Alexander. I do not profess to be a prolific MM romance reader. It’s not entirely clear why Muna feels she must hide the truth about her magic and her predicament in general other than her (somewhat reasonable, given the societal context) mistrust of the English or the author’s need to inject additional tension into the plot. Muna must find some way back into Fairy to find Sakti and dodge the wrathful Fairy Queen while concealing from Prunella and her fellow instructor, Miss Henrietta Stapleton, that she cannot do magic. Meanwhile, someone has stolen a powerful magical talisman from the Fairy Queen, and she blames England magicians in general and Prunella in particular, threatening to put them all to death if the item is not returned. Muna takes refuge with Prunella Wythe, Britain’s controversial Sorceress Royal, who has opened up an Academy to teach young women to become magiciennes. The powerful witch Mak Genggang grants the two young women her protection, but their effort to determine who cursed them takes them to England-or at least, it takes Muna Sakti is lost during the perilous journey through Fairy. 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