11/16/2015
Saintcrow’s second Gallow & Ragged urban fantasy (after Trailer Park Fae) uses lush, striking prose to disguise a slow story. The entire book is about people chasing and fleeing from one another, and most of them wind up where they started. Robin Ragged, who’s half-human and half-Sidhe, discovered the true origin of the disease plaguing the Sidhe’s Summer Court. Now she’s on the run from both the Queen of Summer and the Lord of Unwinter. After an unpleasant confrontation with conniving near-feral trickster Robin Goodfellow, she retreats. She’s pursued by her former brother-in-law, the half-Sidhe Jeremiah Gallow, who wants to protect her, and the scarred Huntsman Alastair Creen, an agent of the queen. Gallow is also being hunted by agents of Unwinter, who want the lord’s horn back. The language is gorgeously evocative (“He was no more than a bow upon an instrument’s strings, drawing back and forth to sing a cacophony of shattered bone and split flesh”), but there’s painfully little character development. Those already invested in the series may be the most intrigued. Agent: Miriam Kriss, Irene Goodman Agency. (Feb.)
Some months back, we implored you to read Trailer Park Fae, the first book in Lilith Saintcrow’s Gallow and Ragged series, which takes urban fantasy out of the city for a strange visit to the magical rural outskirts. We were big fans of the book and chatted with the author, and now we’ve got another treat for […]
Full disclosure: I’ve known Lili Saintcrow for a decade now; she edited an early version of my second novel The Electric Church and helped to get it published. For some reason, she continues to talk to me. This summer, she released not one but two novels from Orbit Books, Trailer Park Fae and Blood Call, so it […]
This week brings us a trio of our most anticipated novels of the year, not to mention new installments of a few of our favorite ongoing fantasy series. It’s a good week to stay inside, avoid the snow, and read.
For nearly two decades, Jim Killen has served as the science fiction and fantasy book buyer for Barnes & Noble. Every month on the B&N Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog and Tor.com, Jim shares his curated list of the month’s can’t-miss new SF/F releases.