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Saint Death's Daughter by CSE Cooney
Saint Death's Daughter
4/5. Fantasy about the first necromancer born to her house in generations, and how she is allergic to injury and pain, and what happens when she is caught up in inter-kingdom political stuff.
I think this is what you’d get if Francis Hardinge and T. Kingfisher had a book baby, and that book baby’s fairy godmother who gave it an ambiguously ominous blessing in the cradle was Tamsyn Muir, and then that book baby grew up into its own person. I’m not sure how else to describe this.
It’s good, to be clear. Grim and vivid (and really gross) and sad and whimsically funny and sweet and strange and eerie. Also oddly paced and long, but I didn’t mind (I know, who am I). And there’s a feral murder child and a zombie puppy. Also, the main romance is with a nonbinary person.
Content notes: Death and bodies and necromancy. Mind control and related issues of consent, sexual and otherwise.
4/5. Fantasy about the first necromancer born to her house in generations, and how she is allergic to injury and pain, and what happens when she is caught up in inter-kingdom political stuff.
I think this is what you’d get if Francis Hardinge and T. Kingfisher had a book baby, and that book baby’s fairy godmother who gave it an ambiguously ominous blessing in the cradle was Tamsyn Muir, and then that book baby grew up into its own person. I’m not sure how else to describe this.
It’s good, to be clear. Grim and vivid (and really gross) and sad and whimsically funny and sweet and strange and eerie. Also oddly paced and long, but I didn’t mind (I know, who am I). And there’s a feral murder child and a zombie puppy. Also, the main romance is with a nonbinary person.
Content notes: Death and bodies and necromancy. Mind control and related issues of consent, sexual and otherwise.