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Looking for books like Agnes Aubert's Mystical Cat Shelter by Heather Fawcett? If its practical kindness, magical clutter, and slow-thawing affection made the shelter feel like home, read The Keeper of Magical Things by Julie Leong next.

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  • Agnes's practical caretaking becomes Certainty's magical cataloguing
  • Havelock's chaos becomes Aurelia's ice, preserving corrective friction
  • Shelter routines become warehouse sorting and village repair
  • Feline mischief concentrates into one unruly catdragon
  • The same wry refuge arrives with gentler peril
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★★★★☆ 4.15 • Goodreads

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If Agnes won you over by treating kindness as a job with leases, lists, mess, and creatures that refuse to cooperate, Certainty Bulrush is the next capable woman to follow. After six years as an overlooked novice, her supposedly minor gift—speaking with enchanted objects—finally earns her a consequential assignment: move a hoard of temperamental artifacts to Shpelling and make an old warehouse work. Paired with brilliant, forbidding Aurelia, Certainty has to sort gossipy teapots, occasionally combustible swords, and one runaway catdragon while persuading a village that has good reasons to distrust mages. The work keeps changing shape, from storage problem to community repair, and every practical solution makes room for friendship, belonging, and attraction.

A warehouse full of unruly magic becomes a village's second chance.

Leong trades Agnes's close first-person dryness and wintry historical Montréal for a warmer third-person village comedy. The romantic polarity flips too: Certainty brings earnest light to Aurelia's frozen self-command, so the banter is gentler than Agnes and Havelock's rapid-fire sparring. What remains is the source's deepest comfort—ordinary labor repeatedly becoming magical, usefulness widening into connection, and a refuge brightening because two overworked women finally let other people help.

The objects talk; the real magic is learning whose needs matter.

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"The Keeper of Magical things is the perfect cozy sapphic fantasy romance for people who love a prickly heroine and forced proximity." — Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany), Goodreads

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"There’s a fantastic balance of magic, whimsy, humour and light academia which kept me turning the pages wanting more." — Nils | nilsreviewsit, Goodreads

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"It's adorable, cute, fun, FUNNY, and has a super interesting plot!" — Joscelyn, Goodreads

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