Jon Skovron, Author . Abrams/Amulet $16.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4174-8
This first novel about a boy who loves music can be heavy-handed, but it hits enough high notes to be a crowd-pleaser. Sammy is trying to keep his band, Tragedy of Wisdom, together, but with a bullying singer and a spacey bassist, it seems destined...
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Jon Skovron. Abrams/Amulet, $16.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4197-0021-7
Skovron's second book is a two for one: a coming-of-age story wrapped within a captivating paranormal context. Sixteen-year-old Jael Thompson's gradual discovery of her abilities as a half-demon is narrated in the present tense, while her education...
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Jon Skovron. Viking, $17.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-670-78620-6
Fleeing a claustrophobic life in a New York City theater that shelters mythological monsters from trolls to Medusa herself, Boy—the 17-year-old son of Frank-enstein’s monster—seeks self-understanding and an identity in contemporary America. Pursued...
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Jon Skovron. Orbit, $9.99 mass market (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-26811-0
YA author Skovron builds on his strengths in his first book for adults, diving deep into the lives of two, gruesomely orphaned children in an Earthsea-like island realm. The land is ruled by a degenerate imperium whose amoral face is the biomancers—p
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Jon Skovron. Orbit, $9.99 mass market (544p) ISBN 978-0-316-26814-1
Lovers Hope and Red (introduced in 2016’s Hope and Red) return in the ingenious second installment of the Empire of Storms trilogy, set in a fantasy world where an empire spreads across many lands and seas. No easing into the reintroduction: the...
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Jon Skovron. Orbit, $15.99 trade paper (528p) ISBN 978-0-316-45462-9
Skovron (Empire of Storms) launches his Slavic-influenced Goddess War series with this intricate, well-told fantasy. Sixteen-year-old Sebastian Turgenev Portinari has a rare talent for elemental magic, but his skills are inhibited by his father’s...
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Jon Skovron. Orbit, $16.99 trade paper (480p) ISBN 978-0-316-45465-0
With the second Goddess War fantasy, Skovron both fulfils and builds on the promise of The Ranger of Marzanna, as rival teen siblings Sonya and Sebastian Turgenev Portinari, and their allies and adversaries—including the capricious goddesses of the...
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Jon Skovron, read by the author. Listening Library, unabridged, eight CDs, 10 hrs., $55 ISBN 978-0-8041-2397-6
Seventeen-year-old Boy is the stitched-together son of Frankenstein’s monster and the Bride of Frankenstein. He lives in a Broadway theater in New York with a host of other monsters and mythological creatures. But otherwise, he’s a typical teenager,
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