A digital-only novella set in the world of author L. D. Lapinski’s magical Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy. Twelve-year-old Flick Hudson loves traveling the multiverse via magical suitcases with 18-year-old Jonathan Mercator, overseer of the Strangeworlds Society. Even so, she wasn’t expecting something quite so magical to happen on Christmas Eve….
Fans of the series will enjoy this bonus story with the characters they’ve grown to love; those new to it would be better advised to read the trilogy first, however, as there are some significant spoilers here.
And while Jonathan is trans and Flick has a crush on another girl in the main series, there’s no evidence of that in this story, beyond a reference to Flick blushing when she receives a gift from the girl. Neither of their queer identities is a focal point of the main trilogy, though, so this story feels in keeping with that approach. Those in the know, however, will delight in these two queer characters simply having another adventure where their identities aren’t a Big Deal. In a perfect world, that’s how it should be.
