It’s unfortunate how uncommon strong female leads are. It’s a novel that tackles important ideas of faith, politics and the privileged while keeping the excitement of magical duels with shadow and nightmare.
And he did it in a way that made the idea of fantasy lawyers interesting. Gladstone managed to write a beautifully clever story. It may seem like a stretch, a fantasy book based on lawyers rather than warriors, but that’s its true beauty. Her only chance is to win in court against opposing counsel. If she doesn’t, the city of Alt Coulomb will crumble into chaos. It’s a story of magical corporations and necromancer lawyers.Īs a first-year associate of the necromantic firm Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, it’s up to Tara Abernathy to solve the murder of a dead god and bring him back to life. Instead of taking our world and adding magic (such as Jim Butcher’s Dresden Files or Myke Cole’s Shadow Ops), this is a world born of magic that has progressed to a point that mirrors our modern age. Set in a phenomenally built world in which lawyers ride lightning bolts, souls are currency, and cities are powered by the remains of fallen gods, Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence introduces readers to a modern fantasy landscape and an epic struggle to build a just society.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.Max Gladstone’s Three Parts Dead is fantasy of a different flavor. When Tara and Abelard discover that Kos was murdered, they have to make a case in Alt Coulumb's courts?and their quest for the truth endangers their partnership, their lives, and Alt Coulumb's slim hope of survival. Her only help: Abelard, a chain-smoking priest of the dead god, who's having an understandable crisis of faith. Tara's job: resurrect Kos before chaos sets in. Without Him, the metropolis's steam generators will shut down, its trains will cease running, and its four million citizens will riot.
Her client is Kos, recently deceased fire god of the city of Alt Coulumb. Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence chronicles the epic struggle to build a just society in a modern fantasy world.Ī god has died, and it's up to Tara, first-year associate in the international necromantic firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao, to bring Him back to life before His city falls apart.
From the author of the viral bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.
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