A Quokka Dreeds its Weird

I wound up annoyed by Freedom and Necessity because of this. The back of the book promises a "magical conspiracy;" it would be more apt to say there is an occult conspiracy, i.e. something involving a secret society doing occult things, but not the overt fantasy I kept expecting and not getting. I loved so much else about that book, waiting for something that was never going to come ended up grating like a rather sharp pebble in my shoe.