Sixteen-year-old Marguerite knows her uncle doesn’t like her. I can’t recommend it enough, but I did try and review it, if you still need convincing. It’s rich and delicious and poignant and FUN. (Although really it’s a word for all Cooney’s writing, across all her work, but Dark Breakers prompted its invention.) The prose is beyond compare, and the stories mix breathtaking otherworldliness with passages that will have you laughing out loud, if not cackling outright. This book is so beyond perfect that I had to invent a new word to describe it.

In her introduction to DARK BREAKERS, Crawford Award-winning author Sharon Shinn advises those who pick up this book to “settle in for a fantastical read” full of “vivid world-building, with layer upon layer of detail prose so dense and gorgeous you can scoop up the words like handfuls of jewels a mischievous sense of humor and a warm and hopeful heart.” Cooney that expand on the thrice-enfolded worlds first introduced in her Locus and World Fantasy award-nominated novella DESDEMONA AND THE DEEP. Two gentry queens of the Valwode plot to hijack a human rocketship and steal the moon out of the sky.ĭARK BREAKERS gathers three new and two previously uncollected tales from World Fantasy Award-winning writer C. Returning to an oak grove to scatter her husband’s ashes, an elderly widow meets an otherworldly friend, who offers her a momentous choice. An investigative reporter infiltrates the Seafall City Laundries to write the exposé of a lifetime, and uncovers secrets she never believed possible. Pulled into the Veil Between Worlds, two feuding neighbors (and a living statue) get swept up in a brutal war of succession. COONEYĪ young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine-at the risk of his life and her immortality.

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