V.E. Schwab. Tor, $24.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3534-0
Victor Vale and Eliot Cardale, both brilliant and driven, were friends and college roommates who figured out how to give themselves superpowers. Victor went to jail and Eli began working with the cops. But “villain” Victor is innocent of the charges
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $25.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7645-9
Schwab (Vicious) creates an ingenious set of nesting alternate Londons in this imaginative, well-crafted fantasy. There’s Grey London, set in our mundane world’s Regency era; Red London, where magic flourishes along with the populace; and White...
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $25.99 (624p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8746-2
The superb conclusion to Schwab’s Shades of Magic trilogy picks up shortly after the events in 2016’s A Gathering of Shadows. A ball is in full swing in Red London (one of several parallel Londons). The partiers are celebrating the conclusion of the
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $25.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8752-3
With all the knife-sharp thrill of its cinematic predecessor, 2013’s Vicious, bestseller Schwab’s second Villains series plunges readers back into the world of extraordinary humans, or EOs, who were granted special abilities after near-death...
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $26.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8756-1
Schwab (the Shades of Magic series) crafts the tale of one woman’s desperate drive to be remembered into a triumphant exploration of love and loss. The story hops across time as it follows the life of Adeline “Addie” LaRue from the French country...
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V.E. Schwab and Enid Balám. Titan Comics, $24.99 (112p) ISBN 978-1-78586-588-6
This graphic spin-off from Schwab’s X-men-esque Villains series takes up a promising character, in the in-between chronology of two prose titles, but despite all the graphic potential of moody teenagers wielding super powers, the comic version comes
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V.E. Schwab, illus. by Manuel Šumberac. Greenwillow, $18.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-283577-2
Though artist Olivia Prior—who is 14 and communicates via sign language—has lived at the Merilance School for Independent Girls since age one, she has never felt at home. Other residents don’t sign, the girls bully her, the staff “takes her silence...
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $29.99 (656p) ISBN 978-0-7653-8749-3
Bestseller Schwab revisits the world of the Shades of Magic series—where multiple alternate Londons feud with one another—in the action-packed start to a new spin-off series. The lives of Kell Maresh, Delilah Bard, Alucard Emery, and King Rhy Maresh
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $29.99 (544p) ISBN 978-1-250-32052-0
Bestseller Schwab (The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue) unfolds an epic and emotionally resonant tale about three lesbian vampires connected through the centuries. In 16th-century Spain, wild Maria avoids pregnancy and eventually escapes her lonely...
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V.E. Schwab. Tor, $25.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-7653-7647-3
Schwab’s fantastic follow-up to 2015’s A Darker Shade of Magic returns to the linked alternate realities of London: Grey London, our own familiar magic-free city in its Regency era; Red London, where people and magic work in concert; White London,...
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