Kathy Osborn, Author, Jacqueline Carey, Author, Chronicle Books, Author Chronicle Books $22.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-8118-1109-5
A vivid and arresting jacket, numerous full-page, full-color illustrations and a distinctively spaced text delivered entirely in captioned dialogue, like a play, make this charming book an attention-grabber. Part grown-up comic book, part wry...
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Edited by Yanni Kuznia. Subterranean
(subterraneanpress.com), $20 (152p) ISBN 978-1-59606-767-7
This short anthology collects riveting fantastical stories from four of fantasy’s glowing stars. Kevin Hearne’s “Goddess at the Crossroads” is a delightful adventure in his Iron Druid world, featuring a rare trip into the past of series hero Atticus.
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Grand Central $26.99 (645p) ISBN 978-0-446-19803-5
The seventh installment in Carey's bestselling Kushiel series (after 2008's Kushiel's Mercy
) follows its youthful protagonist, Moirim, from bed to bed as she worships sexuality goddess Naamah. Following a tragic affair, Moirim...
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Jacqueline Carey. Tor, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8679-3
Carey (the Santa Olivia series) turns Shakespeare’s Tempest on its head, in ways that are always supportable by the original text, with this brilliant deconstruction. On the deserted island where Miranda grows up, her magician father, Prospero,...
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Jacqueline Carey. Roc, $26.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-451-46531-3
Though some whimsy still comes through in the final book of Carey’s Agent of Hel suburban fantasy trilogy (after Autumn Bones), a darker, wintertime mood pervades the intimate story. A persuasive demonic lawyer begins to purchase large pieces of...
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Jacqueline Carey. Roc, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-46518-4
The second installment of Carey’s suburban fantasy series (after Dark Currents) can’t quite decide whether it’s supernatural chick lit, magical smalltown slice-of-life drama, or a lighthearted cozy mystery, but Carey’s ability to create a diverse,...
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Jacqueline Carey. Roc, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-46478-1
Acclaimed for epic fantasy (Kushiel’s Dart, etc.) and post-apocalyptic SF (Santa Oliva; Saints Astray), Carey turns to contemporary fantasy, showing off her talent for building engaging, detailed settings that feel utterly natural despite their...
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Jacqueline Carey. Grand Central, $14.99 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-446-57142-5
Carey follows 2009’s Santa Olivia with another lively tale of postpandemic America. Loup Garron is a wild young woman with a mean right hook and modified genes, courtesy of her AWOL supersoldier father. She and her girlfriend, Pilar Ecchevarria,...
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Jacqueline Carey. Grand Central, $26.99 (624p) ISBN 978-0-446-19807-3
When half-barbarian witch Moirin returns to Terre D'Ange with her foreign husband, Bao, after their adventures in the East (detailed in Naamah's Curse), she finds that her friend Queen Jehanne is dead, the king is depressed, Prince Thierry has...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author Random House (NY) $22 (0p) ISBN 978-0-394-57639-8
In this smartly told, funny and deeply poignant first novel, the author of the praised short story collection Good Gossip offers both a fractured but believable coming-of-age tale of a young narrator, Joan, and a perspicacious exploration of divorce
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Jacqueline Carey, Author Grand Central $26.99 (567p) ISBN 978-0-446-19805-9
In this sequel to 2009’s Naamah’s Kiss
, Moirin, the devoted servant of a sex goddess, journeys across half of a fantasy version of Asia in search of her soulmate, Bao. In Tatar territory, she finds Bao... and his wife. His father-in-law,
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Tor $25.95 (512p) ISBN 978-0-312-87238-0
This brilliant and daring debut, set in a skewed Renaissance world (people worship Jesus-like "Blessed Elua" but also demigods), catapults Carey immediately into the top rank of fantasy novelists. In the character of Phèdre nó...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author Grand Central $13.99 (341p) ISBN 978-0-446-19817-2
Departing from epic fantasy (Kushiel’s Dart
, etc.), Carey sets this powerful near-future tale in Outpost 12, a small town trapped in a “buffer zone” shielding Texas from pandemic-stricken Mexico. Two half-siblings chafing under...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Ballantine $24 (274p) ISBN 978-0-345-45992-3
When Frank Foy, a high-living corporate accountant, goes to jail after his company's Enronesque fall, Pat, his landscape-designer wife, is pathologically unwilling to grasp the fraud's implications in this muddled novel from Carey (The...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Grand Central $26.99 (653p) ISBN 978-0-446-50004-3
In this vivid conclusion to the second Kushiel trilogy (after 2007's Kushiel's Justice
), young Prince Imriel and his beloved, Sidonie, heir to the Terre D'Ange throne, struggle to come to terms with the deaths of Imriel's wife and unborn son. Queen
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Warner $26.99 (703p) ISBN 978-0-446-50003-6
B
estseller Carey's fifth book in her Kushiel's Legacy series, volume two of her Imriel fantasy trilogy (after 2006's Kushiel's Scion
), is a moody tale of violence and divided loyalties. Phèdre nó Delaunay, the...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Warner $26.95 (753p) ISBN 978-0-446-50002-9
The magnificent fourth book in Carey's Kushiel's Legacy series marks the start of a new trilogy set in Terre d'Ange, the author's reimagined Renaissance world. The story picks up where volume three, Kushiel's Avator
(2003), left
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Tor $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1239-6
Lord Satoris Banewreaker has the best of intentions when he opposes Haomane, his brother god, but his actions sunder the world of Urulat. Carey's complex Sundering fantasy series, of which this follows 2004's Banewreaker
, challenges the...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Tor $27.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0521-3
Following her well-received Kushiel's Legacy trilogy (Kushiel's Dart
, etc.), bestseller Carey takes a daringly different tack in the first of a new epic fantasy series that focuses on seven gods rather than an ingratiating human heroine...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Ballantine $23.95 (287p) ISBN 978-0-345-45990-9
The unexpected death of Bridget Crossley—the single mother of the eponymous baby—is the event that kicks this wry, quirky novel by Carey (Good Gossip) into gear. Make that low gear: narrative drive is not the author's strong suit....
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Tor $27.95 (704p) ISBN 978-0-312-87240-3
The promise of Kushiel's Dart
(2001), the first volume of Carey's immense trilogy set in a skewed Renaissance world, is more than realized in this splendid conclusion. In the 10 years since the action of the second, relatively uneventful...
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Jacqueline Carey, Author . Tor $27.95 (704p) ISBN 978-0-312-87239-7
After Carey's boldly imaginative fantasy debut, Kushiel's Dart
(2001), in which the dauntless Phèdre nó Delaunay used intelligence and sexual skill to triumph in politics and war in a Renaissance-like world, Phèdre,...
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Jacqueline Carey. Tor, $25.99 (592p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8682-3
This rich, evocative fantasy epic from Carey (Miranda and Caliban) is a poignant tale of grand adventure. Khai was chosen at birth to serve as shadow (a soul-twin and protector) for the Sun-Blessed Princess Zariya of the House of the Ageless. He has
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Jacqueline Carey. Tor, $30.99 (528p) ISBN 978-1-250-20833-0
With this lyrical, BDSM-infused romantasy, Carey circles back to her Locus Award–winning debut fantasy, Kushiel’s Dart, 21 years after its first publication—but the epic love between courtesan Phédre, who was sold into sexual slavery as a child, and
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