Book Review: THE INCANDESCENT

Book Review: The Incandescent

Dr. Saffy Walden, MThau, PhD, works at Chetwood Academy as the Director of Magic. Alongside the endless marking, meetings, and general bureaucracy that comes with her administrator position at the school, she still gets to do a fair bit of teaching to the sixth form. Which comes with the usual hormone-fuelled dramas, of course, but also the small matter of trying to keep the students from getting possessed and/or opening portals to hell dimensio…

THE INCANDESCENT by Emily Tesh (BOOK REVIEW)

This book is not like Harry Potter. At all. But: What if you take a Deputy Head of an English boarding school for magically capable children, in the era of internet and smartphones, and tell a story from their point of view? You end up with something vaguely reminiscent of what Professor McGonagall probably was thinking about the activities of the Hogwarts kids, except there are demons, and she’s bisexual. It’s awesome. So. The Incandescent foll…

Book Review: THE INCANDESCENT

Thank you to Tor Books for sending me a copy of The Incandescent in exchange for an honest review. About The Incandescent by Emily Tesh  Doctor Walden may be one of the most powerful magicians in England. She spends her days, however, as Director of Magic at Chetwood Academy, corralling chaotic sixth-formers, attending endless meetings and holding back the demonic forces that threaten the school’s ancient wards. She’s brilliant, composed, and tr…