Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme where you chose a random book from your Goodreads TBR and show it off. This meme is hosted by Budget Tales Book Blog.
This week’s book is:
The Familiar
Title: The Familiar
Author: Leigh Bardugo
Page Length: 400
Publication Date: April 9, 2024
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Synopsis: In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family’s social position.
What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England’s heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king’s favor.
Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition’s wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.
LINKS: Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble
Have you read The Familiar? What’s on your TBR? Comment below!
This is on my TBR. Fell inlove with Bardugos writing last year and keep on getting sucked in while reading the Grishaverse books. And this sounds like it´s a perfect book for me so I´m excited. I´m on a book buying ban but for my birthday this one is definitely high up on the list.
Yes! It sounds so good. It’s high up on my TBR, but I have to stop requesting books on NetGalley so I can get to the ones on my bookshelf! lol
Haha I know exactly what you mean. I don´t have NetGalley but somehow books end up at my place anyway 😛
This sounds like a good book for spooky season, especially with that cover!
Have a great week!
Emily @ Budget Tales Book Blog
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Definitely!! You too, Emily! 🙂