In a wonderful passage that gives you a flavor of Ursu’s writing with its warmth, humor and charm, she explains: Caleb also has an apprentice, called Wolf, who is a cruel bully to Oscar when Caleb isn’t looking.
Oscar’s employer, Master Caleb, has a shop in which he sells all sorts of herbal concoctions and remedies to meet the needs of townspeople looking for love and luck and wards against evil, and occasionally even healing actual maladies. He works as a helper to a magician in a world in which a plague has taken many lives, except for those of the people of Aletheia who have been protected by magic. This is the story of an eleven-year-old boy, Oscar, who has been told he is nothing his whole life, and now he believes it. I knew I was so hopelessly in love with this book that I couldn’t bear to read any more, because then it would be over, but I also couldn’t bear to stop reading, because I wanted to be immersed in this magical world created by Ursu! Needless to say, I felt compelled to continue on….
By the time I got to page 15, I had a problem.
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