Sometimes, -not so often- you have a moment, reading a book, when you stop, smile, and think: "that's so clever!". 
 I had several of these moments in Magic Slays. The point when all you believed about a character shifts, and then falls into place with a new clarity that suddenly makes you ask yourself why you didn't get it before. In this novel, we live those revelations and events in conjunction with Kate, and her reactions seem so accurate, so logical, that again, you can only marvel and become a believer than in writing like in life, two brains have to be better than one.