Kat Howard. S&S/Saga, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5116-1
Howard weaves a dark and enticing tale of sisterly bonds, fairy promises, and the price of artistic success in this lushly written debut fantasy set in the present-day U.S. As a child, Imogen was certain that no fairy tale stepmother could possibly...
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Kat Howard. Saga, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-5119-2
Howard’s sophomore novel (after Roses and Rot) is zippy at the expense of character development. Sydney is a magician in an alternate modern-day New York who’s hired to represent House Beauchamps in the Turning, a magical competition that determines
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Kat Howard. Saga, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-9215-7
This dense collection of original and reprinted fantasy short stories and novellas is steeped in hagiography and storytelling, right from the introduction. Howard (An Unkindness of Magicians) states that “Writing for me is an act of faith”; the...
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Maria Dahvana Headley and Kat Howard. Subterranean (subterraneanpress.com), $20 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59606-679-3
Malcolm Mayes flees the ruin of his old life to start over in tiny Ione, Ore. after buying a house long-distance for $3,000. The price isn’t low just because the house is a fixer-upper. It also comes with a serious obligation: the mysterious Dusha...
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Edited by Dominik Parisien and Navah Wolfe. Saga, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4814-6239-6
Wolfe and Parisien (Robots vs. Fairies) have compiled an impressively varied compendium of myth reimaginings by numerous well-known speculative fiction writers. Rebecca Roanhorse riffs on the ever-present danger of obsessive love in the futuristic “A
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Kat Howard. Saga, $26.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-5344-2681-8
Howard’s immersive second Unseen World dark fantasy picks up right where An Unkindness of Magicians left off. The Unseen World is reeling from the events of the Turning, a competition which upended the hierarchy of magical houses and, thanks to the...
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