Novik has a gift for voice and it really shows in this book.
And I could write about what I enjoyed about this book, which was a lot, or pour out my electrons attempting to talk about how uses fiction to critique specifically the Harry Potter books and the wizarding school that just kinda murders kids and no one seems to care...and also the neoliberal politics of the protagonists who are, overall, more invested in the wizarding world as such than the people on the margins in it.
There's an article to be written on writers who got their start in fanfic now writing books that are both inspired by and deconstructions of Harry Potter.
Someone else writer it plz.