4/11/2023 0 Comments Piranesi barnes and nobleHe keeps a journal chronicling his adventures exploring his world and all the wonders he finds within it, as well as his meetings with the one other living person that inhabits the labyrinth, whom he calls The Other. Piranesi’s world is a labyrinthine house filled with statues, where the sea rises and falls within its walls. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (Bloomsbury Sept. Get it from Bookshop, Target, or your local independent bookstore. Master of Poisons is a lush, literary fantasy novel full of folklore and magic. Meanwhile, young Awa, who was sold as a child, is training to become a griot - people who can enter the spirit world and visit the kingdoms, animals, and people who live there. But no easy solution exists to the environmental devastation the poison desert is causing, and in disgust, the council exiles him. Djola, a spymaster in the lord’s council, is called the Master of Poisons because he can always find an antidote to the kingdom’s worst problems. ![]() ![]() The poison desert is spreading, killing farmland and animals. This slow-burn eco fantasy novel takes place in the African-inspired Arkhysian Empire. Master of Poisons by Andrea Hairston (Tor.com Sept. It's one of the best debut fantasy novels of the year, and I’m eagerly looking forward to the second book in the series. These stories intersect in this action-packed, must-read epic fantasy, where a leader who claims to protect his people is, in fact, power-hungry and corrupt, and it’s up to those who chose ethics over power to reimagine the empire. Phalue wants to marry Ranami, who keeps denying her, while Ranami wants Phalue to see how her life of privilege comes at the cost of other people's lives and happiness. Ranami is a member of the Shardless Few, rebels fighting against the empire, and Phalue is the corrupt governor’s daughter. Jovis is a smuggler bringing children away from the empire before their bone shard ceremonies. Lin, the emperor’s daughter, wants to ensure she inherits her father’s kingdom, but he refuses to teach her bone shard magic until she remembers her past - which she’s forgotten since her mysterious illness. The emperor uses these bone shards to create monstrous constructs that serve as his spies, military, and servants. A few children die every year from the procedure. 8)Įvery child in the empire has a slice of bone carved from their necks for future use in the emperor’s magic. The Bone Shard Daughter by Andrea Stewart (Orbit Sept. This is a fun and delightful young adult contemporary fantasy novel with a swoon-worthy romance. As the three try to help Julian and discover what happened to Yadriel’s cousin, Yadriel and Julian begin to fall in love. When Yadriel’s cousin is murdered afterward, he and Maritza try to find out why - but in doing so, they accidentally raise the ghost of Julian Diaz, a teen who was also murdered. With the help of his friend Maritza, Yadriel successfully completes the ritual without his family’s knowledge. ![]() Yadriel is a man, but his family refuses to let him complete the ritual to become a brujo because he's trans. In Yadriel’s traditional Latinx family, women become brujas and practice healing magic, and the men become brujos and help spirits to the land of the dead. Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas (Swoon Reads Sept. Get it from Bookshop, Barnes and Noble, or your local independent bookstore. Both carry many regrets, which prompts them to go on these quests togethers - and these quests will lead them to the evil Ruler of Iyar. In his gender-divided culture, his people struggle with his new identity. The nen-sasair has only recently changed and has lived most of his life as a woman. Benesret lives as an outcast in the Great Burri Desert and makes bone cloths for the Ruler of Iyar’s assassins. Uiziya has trained in three of the four magical weaves, but to learn the final weave and create a bone cloth, she needs to train with and her aunt Benesret, a Master Weaver. The two main characters - Uiziya and a nameless man called nen-sasair - are elderly and trans (referred to as "changers"). Lemberg has previously written short stories set in this world, but this is their first longer work. The Four Profound Weaves is a lyrical and complex novella set in Lemberg’s Birdverse Universe.
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