2021/005: The Thief on the Winged Horse -- Kate Mascarenhas

2021/005: The Thief on the Winged Horse -- Kate Mascarenhas

"Stories about the Thief are rarely factual accounts,” Persephone said. “But they’re still true – they’re full of the fears and anxieties of everyone who lives here.” [loc. 2602]

The Kendricks doll factory is hidden away on Paxton's Eyot in the heart of Oxford, a strangely liminal place where there's no mobile phone signal. Every Kendricks employee is descended from one of the founding Peyton sisters (the oldest married a man named Kendrick, hence the trade name) and they keep the family's secrets, most importantly the magical method for imbuing each doll with a specific, and powerful, emotion.( no spoilers )

2020: Year in Review (books)

See them all on LibraryThing or on Goodreads
* 155 books, all but 7 of them on Kindle
* 110 by female writers, 43 by male writers (some collaborations & anthologies there), 3 by non-binary writers
* 10 rereads

My categorisations (some books will have more than one of these tags):
* 75 fantasy, 24 SF, 25 historical (predominantly 19th / 20th century, 6 books set in WW1 or WW2)
* 29 romance (of which 24 were non-het romance)
* 10 YA/children's
6 non-fiction

Best five:
* The Kingdoms - Natasha Pulley (does this count? hasn't been published yet)
* Burn - Patrick Ness
* Comet Weather - Liz Williams
* Island of Ghosts - Gillian Bradshaw
* A Deadly Education - Naomi Novik

My post on the Reading Women Challenge 2020.

Last year's 'books read' post