Felix Silver, Teaspoons & Witches

by Harry Cook

Overview

After his parents announce that his bizarre, emerging abilities are getting in the way of their divorce, Felix Silver relocates to Dorset Harbor and becomes the charge of his Grandma Aggie.  As Felix adjusts to life in a new school, Aggie decides that it's time  he learn The Silver Way, and teaches him all she knows about sorcery and magical arts. When Felix and his new friends decide to solve the mystery of local teenagers who have gone missing, Felix learns that his crush, Aero, has a big secret. Is dark magic creeping into the town, and can Felix learn enough from Aggie and the witches of Dorset Harbor to combat it?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781951954154
Publisher:	Interlude Press - Duet Books
Publication date:	08/30/2022
Sold by:	INDEPENDENT PUB GROUP - EPUB - EBKS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Harry Cook is an award-winning film, television, and theater actor, writer, and LGBTQI+ activist. His writing credits includes Pink Ink (a memoir, 2018, Finch/Harper Collins), Fin & Rye & Fireflies (2020, Ink Road), and contributions to The Huffington Post, The Big Smoke, and The Guardian. With theatre credits including Macbeth, the Australian premiere of Mark Ravenhill's groundbreaking play Citizenship, and Sydney's run of the Broadway smash hit RENT, he has worked alongside such talents as Academy Award winner Geena Davis, Sam Neill, Peter Phelps, and Ben Oxenbould.

Editorial Reviews

2022-06-08
Double, double teaspoons and trouble.

As his parents’ divorce has turned acrimonious, 17-year-old Felix Silver has been shipped off to live with his Grandma Aggie in her small community of Dorset Harbor, a town where magic users—who use teaspoons like wands—are free to be themselves. This gives Felix a chance to learn to work with his emerging powers and meet other young magical folks, including offbeat Fern, magically challenged Charlie, and dreamboat Aero. The foursome’s school year is interrupted, however, when teens begin disappearing and the witchy citizens of Dorset Harbor begin to suspect dark magic may be involved. Both Felix’s and his grandmother’s social circles work to figure out who is responsible. Along the way, things begin to heat up between Felix and Aero, but Aero’s suspicions of Gran may derail the budding romance between the boys. Unfortunately, the cobweb-thin plot is less than enchanting, with a big twist that most readers will spot coming fairly early on. Likewise, the characters are not deeply developed; explicit descriptions often convey how they are meant to be perceived instead of readers’ being allowed to develop feelings about them organically. A conversation about Aero’s bisexuality is a bright spot in the story. All main characters are coded as White.

A fantasy with a queer romance that doesn’t quite live up to expectations. (Fantasy. 12-17)

Kirkus Reviews