The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker is a very entertaining novel, if you can get past the silly title. Barker has written a Harry Potter type fairy tale for adults.

Nora, the protagonist, gets lost hiking on a mountain and wanders into another realm full of wizards and magicians, both good and bad. Here she meets the magician Aruendiel, who begins to teach her real magic so she can survive, and try to make her way back to her own world.

This was a wonderful world to escape into and I was fully drawn in, I didn’t want it to end. Barker will have to write a sequel, as the ending leaves the reader wanting more. A fun and entertaining escape.