But the few sympathetic characters serve as little more than foils to the various villains, splendidly drawn, displaying all the hues and shades of evil. Virtually enslaved, kindhearted Will rescues a cat and her three newborn kittens, unwittingly triggering a tragic sequence of sorcery, betrayal, and violence. On the run from a false accusation of murder, the boy falls into the clutches of the alchemist Elias Spittle. But this tale’s hero (unusual for Jarvis) is human: young orphaned Will Godwin, adrift in the perilous London of 1664. The first of three prequels to the popular Deptford Mice trilogy details the dark backstory of the malevolent feline mage Jupiter.
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