Necessity is the mother of invention. In Kalyna’s case, invention takes the form of cold reading, intelligence gathering, gumption, and a fair amount of lying. The necessity comes from her family. She is the last in a long line of people gifted with the ability to see the future; Kalyna did not get this gift, though she does her damndest to make her customers believe she did. In Elijah Kinch Spector’s highly entertaining novel, Kalyna the Soothsayer, necessity strikes again when Kalyna’s gift is “requisitioned” by a nearby prince and is spirited away by the prince’s agents in the dead of night...

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