Grumpy / Sunshine Duo Books for Fans of Wednesday and Enid

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

As 1 of lone a fewer witches successful Britain, Mika Moon has ever known she has to support her powers a secret. So erstwhile she’s asked to travel tutor 3 young witches successful however to power their powers, astatine archetypal she’s suspicious. But the unusual radical of caretakers astatine Nowhere House look genuine, and soon Mika finds herself falling for this tight-knit recovered family. Even the closed disconnected librarian, Jamie, lone wants what’s champion for the children successful his care. Mika and Jamie are arsenic antithetic arsenic nighttime and day, sunshine and storms, but someway they enactment good together. And being truthful antithetic lone makes them an adjacent amended team.

A Marvellous Light by Freya Marske

A laid backmost Baronet with an optimistic outlook connected beingness and a stuffy magician are thrown unneurotic successful this unthinkable humanities phantasy caller acceptable successful a magical mentation of Edwardian England. Robin Blythe ne'er would’ve known magic existed if not for an administrative mistake that assigned him arsenic the newest liaison to the magical community. Within the people of a day, helium discovers magic is real, is cursed by a set of errant magicians, and meets the worlds astir disagreeable coworker, Edwin Courcey. But successful bid to region Robin’s curse and prevention the magical satellite from a acheronian conspiracy, Robin and Edwin volition person to enactment together. Closely together. And soon Robin begins to announcement that beneath Edwin’s hardened exterior is simply a bully antheral who conscionable wants to beryllium loved.

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

Grumpy / sunshine pairings don’t ever person to beryllium romanticist partners either! (Though much power–and fanfic–to you if you vessel Wednesday / Enid oregon Aziraphale / Crowley.) Like Wednesday and Enid, Azirahpale and Crowley are improbable friends. I mean, an angel and a demon? Getting along? But that’s portion of what makes this wacky extremity times caller enactment truthful well: it’s ne'er rather what you expect.

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Wicked by Gregory Maguire

Enid and Wednesday reminded maine truthful overmuch of my archetypal fave sunshine / grumpy duo: Glinda and Elphaba. They person truthful overmuch successful common, adjacent down to the aesthetic. Yes, my emotion of them came from the musical, not the book, and the 2 are rather different. But nonetheless, Glinda and Elphaba are an iconic sunshine / grumpy duo for the ages. Elphaba rocks that aforesaid benignant of goth, color-averse benignant arsenic Wednesday, and of people Glinda (or Galinda if you prefer) is simply a preppy arsenic they come. This publication is decidedly not for kids oregon astir apt adjacent teens. Like I said, not the musical. Very overmuch not the musical.

The House successful the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

A by the publication lawsuit idiosyncratic for Department successful Charge Of Magical Youth is assigned to 1 of his astir hard cases yet: determining whether a tiny orphanage raising six unsafe children is apt to bring astir the extremity of days. Linus has ne'er truly considered what happens to the facilities helium evaluates aft helium sends successful his reports, but aft gathering the charming caretaker of the Marsyas Island Orphanage, Arthur Parnassus, he’s forced to spot his occupation from different angle. And maybe, conscionable maybe, Arthur’s unusual small location mightiness person a spot for Linus, too.

Witchlings by Claribel A. Ortega

Ortega’s witchy mediate people bid mixes up the grumpy / sunshine trope by featuring a mean miss with bubblegum pinkish hairsbreadth and her anxious opposite. Seven, the headstrong person of this trio, invokes an past ritual successful bid to prevention the 3 from becoming “spares” whose powers volition ne'er manifest arsenic a coven. Unfortunately that means moving alongside the spoiled affluent miss who has been bullying her for years. But is Valley truly conscionable a mean girl? And is Thorn, the 3rd subordinate of their group, thing much than a tense nelly? Maybe it volition instrumentality coming unneurotic and looking past the aboveground for the 3 of them to recognize relationship tin travel successful the unlikeliest of forms.

I Am Not Starfire by Mariko Tamaki and Yoshi Yoshitani

The grumpy / sunshine pairing successful this graphic caller are parent and daughter– which is really beauteous due for Wednesday, too, erstwhile you deliberation astir it. Famed superhero Starfire has a daughter, and her girl is bushed of being compared to her cleanable mom. Starfire is bright, colorful, kind, and optimistic. And Mandy is…not. She’s a goth teen who conscionable wants to marque her ain spot successful the satellite without her mother’s bequest hanging implicit her. But that’s hard to bash erstwhile your parent is simply a celebrated superhero.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

A sassy swordswoman and a perfectionist necromancer clash earlier becoming inseparable successful this acheronian abstraction fantasy. The aesthetic of this full publication is precise Wednesday, but it besides features a amusive grumpy / sunshine pairing successful the signifier of Gideon and Harrow. Gideon whitethorn person to deterioration the skull overgarment of the Ninth House, but she pairs the look with sunglasses and a swagger that people her arsenic decidedly irreverent. Harrow connected the different hand, is simply a loyal girl of the Ninth House and takes her necromancy seriously. They spell from enemies to begrudging allies to friends to… well, I’ll conscionable fto you work it for yourself.

Monstress by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda

It’s nary wonderment that the main quality successful this stunning graphic caller beingness is grumpy. Not lone has Maika Halfwolf been kidnapped, tortured, and experimented connected by the force successful an ongoing warfare betwixt the humans and Arcanics, she’s besides possessed by an aged deity with a voracious appetite for quality flesh. But her young fox friend, Kipa, who becomes thing similar a younger sister to her passim the people of the series, is afloat of eternal anticipation and optimism that astatine turns seems to annoy and comfortableness Maika. Kipa is simply a cleanable foil and brings retired the champion successful Maika adjacent successful the worst of times. Liu and Takeda decidedly cognize what they’re doing with these two, playing connected each our heartstrings.

Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett (January 10, 2022)

Emily Wilde is the foremost adept successful the survey faeries and prefers the institution of books to people. Emily is not bully astatine people. So erstwhile Emily arrives astatine colony of Hrafnsvik to probe her caller compendium of faerie lore, she has nary volition of befriending the townsfolk oregon interacting with her rival colleague, the insufferably charming Wendell Bambleby, who happens to get astatine the aforesaid time. But arsenic she digs deeper into a mysterious and elusive radical of faeries, she indispensable face different mystery: who precisely is Wendell Bambleby and what does helium want? It’s a question that volition unit her to face her ain desires and, for once, perceive to her heart.