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Title: The House of Shattered Wings
Author: Aliette de Bodard
Expected publication: August 25th, 2015
Publisher: Roc
Multi-award winning author Aliette de Bodard, brings her story of the War in Heaven to Paris, igniting the City of Light in a fantasy of divine power and deep conspiracy…
In the late Twentieth Century, the streets of Paris are lined with haunted ruins. The Great Magicians’ War left a trail of devastation in its wake. The Grand Magasins have been reduced to piles of debris, Notre-Dame is a burnt-out shell, and the Seine has turned black with ashes and rubble and the remnants of the spells that tore the city apart. But those that survived still retain their irrepressible appetite for novelty and distraction, and The Great Houses still vie for dominion over France’s once grand capital.
Once the most powerful and formidable, House Silverspires now lies in disarray. Its magic is ailing; its founder, Morningstar, has been missing for decades; and now something from the shadows stalks its people inside their very own walls.
Within the House, three very different people must come together: a naive but powerful Fallen angel; an alchemist with a self-destructive addiction; and a resentful young man wielding spells of unknown origin. They may be Silverspires’ salvation—or the architects of its last, irreversible fall. And if Silverspires falls, so may the city itself
I am hoping we will get an ARC of this book as part of the Ace Roc Stars!
I’m really looking forward to this one, too. Got my eARC ready, and am just waiting for the release date to creep a little closer so I can read it and then review it immediately after. :3
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Not sure about this one. It definitely caught my eye, but I’ve never been a huge fan of fallen angel stories. There’s just too much theological baggage there for me.
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This one caught my eye as well, probably going to request the eARC from NetGalley one of these days, no doubt. Good thing release is still months away, I have to clear my NG TBR a bit first 🙂
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I am looking forward to this too! Waiting to see if it’s actually in our next Ace Roc package before I request it on NG.
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I love the cover, I hope you enjoy reading it!
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Oooh pretty cover! Kind of an unusual setting too: most of the fantasy novels set in France that I’ve come across are set during the Medieval period or French Revolution. I’m curious to see what people think of this one!
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