What are they doing here in our world and where are they coming from? There is also the question as to why her Nan was running what is basically a junk shop. And the story really is about Allie finding her feet in the Emporium, meeting some of the customers and oh, trying to figure out about why she’s been spotting dragons doing a fly-over the emporium since she arrived.
Much is made of this letter as the aunties do not think Allie’s Nan is dead – she is afterall one of the Aunties and they would know such a thing.Īllie travels to Calgary and finds The Enchantment Emporium her Nan’s left her. The letter is quite short and abrupt stating that if she’s (Allie) reading it, her Nan was dead and that she is inheriting a shop and building in Calgery in Canada. Allie receives a letter from her Nan who has broken away from the claustrophobic confines of the larger Gale family to do her own thing. When we meet Allie she is jobless, homeless and pretty much friendless.
The men are kept close and then there are the aunties who to my mind are very similar to the aunties in Native American folklore – where they are these truly powerful god-like creatures spinning and weaving our skein. There are various rituals and steeped in lore and magical elements. Looking at the family, they are very witchy. Firstly, we aren’t ever entirely sure they are even 100% human. Most of us have families, with aunts and uncles and cousins and whatnot. Although, having googled it, it looks like we may be in store for another one, a sequel. If I could, I’d force Tanya Huff to write more books in this world. I can say, with my hand on my heart, that it has become one of my all time favourite urban fantasy novels.
Eventually I succumbed towards the end of last year and bought it. In my Amazon recommends, in the various shops I went in to. And no one told her there's trouble brewing in Calgary-trouble so big that even calling in the family may not save the day.įor some time, this book kept popping up everywhere. It isn't until she gets there that she realizes her customers are fey. So when the letter from her Gran arrives willing her a "junk" shop in Calgary, Alysha jumps at the chance.
Alysha Gale is tired of having all her aunts try to run her life, both personally and magically. The Gale family can change the world with the charms they cast, and they like to keep this in the family.
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