Morrigan Crow is cursed, blamed for everything that goes wrong in her community and doomed to die young. But just as her fated death draws near, she is rescued by Jupiter North, a strange man who takes her to the province of Nevermoor and sponsors her to join the Wundrous Society. Morrigan is elated -- Jupiter cares about her, she gets to live in a wonderful, magical hotel, and for the first time, she has a friend. But to get into the Wundrous Society, she'll have to pass four trials -- and the fourth one requires her to have a knack, a special magical ability. And unfortunately, Morrigan has no idea what hers is supposed to be. I decided to reread the series on audio in preparation for reading [Silverborn] and it's just as good as I remember from my first reading! This is the magical school series I recommend to kids instead of HP these days since JKR turned into a raging transphobe. It's one of the few books that I think captures the same sense of whimsy and wonder that HP does, but Townsend does it fully in her own way and Nevermoor is definitely not an HP knockoff -- in a lot of ways, I think it's stronger. 5 stars.
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