Having enjoyed Fawcett's Emily Wilde series of course I snapped this one up. A fast, breezy read with plenty of similar features to Emily Wilde—an autistic-vibing female lead who is intensely focused on her area of interest, and a supremely magically potent male lead who is equally as fascinated as he is baffled by her and her focus.

I feel like this suffered in that Emily Wilde was an expert at the top of her field, as capable and insightful as any mortal could be, while Agnes Aubert is… not. That is, she is an expert in the field of cat rescue and care, but she begins knowing nothing of magic and not wanting to know anything, although of course she does listen and learn in what I consider the beginnings of a most satisfactory way. While I am complaining, Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter being told in first person rather than diary format does mean we miss out on the customary chapter told from the perspective of the love interest (but this does also mean we don't get a chapter where our protagonist is incapacitated and needs rescuing, which IS a plus, it's just separately missing out on a fun excursion to a different narrative voice). And once again we have a straight couple where the much much more powerful in a way the lead can never hope to match. Maybe next time it can be the heroine who is magically potent or, better yet, lesbians? Not a super serious complaint there, I suspect I would have to look elsewhere or even learn to write it myself if I were determined to get that, but I still want to say it's on my mind.

That's a lot of grumbling. Did I enjoy this? Yes. Did I read it over just 3 days, over a span of approximately 8 focused hours? Also yes. And will I be reading any sequels as soon as I can get hold of them? Of course, and I won't regret it!