In all the Borean Colonies, fifteen-year-old Mal Malin is the last person you'd ever suspect as a wizard's apprentice. His ice freezes the spit in his own mouth, his divination won't work past the wall, and the last time he tried communing with an automaton, it chased him down the street.
But there is one thing the young noble does better than anyone else. Mal can raise the dead. A pity, then, that bragging about his Necromancy would only net him a one-way trip to the gallows.
Mal has already been plucked from the gutter and thrust into a world in which he does not fit. Can he guard his secrets? Or will he be ground beneath the weight of a world that hates him?
Apprentice may be Jonathan Cue's debut young adult dark-fantasy novel and the first book in "The Journeys of Mal Malin" series, but this slow-burn, contemplative and captivating tale about goodness, cruelty, loss and redemption is sure to leave readers spellbound.
