
Saint Death's Daughter: 2023 World Fantasy Award Winner!
by C. S. E. Cooney
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Pub Date 12 Apr 2022 | Archive Date 5 Apr 2022
Rebellion | Solaris
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Description
WINNER OF THE 2023 WORLD FANTASY AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL
Nothing complicates life like Death.
Lanie Stones, the daughter of the Royal Assassin and Chief Executioner of Liriat, has never led a normal life. Born with a gift for necromancy and a literal allergy to violence, she was raised in isolation in the family’s crumbling mansion by her oldest friend, the ancient revenant Goody Graves.
When her parents are murdered, it falls on Lanie and her cheerfully psychotic sister Nita to settle their extensive debts or lose their ancestral home—and Goody with it. Appeals to Liriat's ruler to protect them fall on indifferent ears… until she, too, is murdered, throwing the nation's future into doubt.
Hunted by Liriat’s enemies, hounded by her family’s creditors and terrorised by the ghost of her great-grandfather, Lanie will need more than luck to get through the next few months—but when the goddess of Death is on your side, anything is possible.
Advance Praise
"Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy--I have never read anything so utterly alive." -- Amal El-Mohtar
"Glorious." -- Angela Slatter, award-winning author of All the Murmuring Bones
"I loved Saint Death's Daughter to pieces." -- Katherine Addison
"Marvellous" -- Mike Brooks
"Just as magical as I knew it would be." -- Tiffany Trent
"Gorgeous, sexy, cruel and compassionate and funny. Such rich, delicious world-building and frankly lovable characters (even the baddies are compelling!). I relished every word." -- Liz Duffy Adams, author of Tremontaine and Whitehall
"Saint Death's Daughter is filled with lavish world building, lyrical prose, and characters to die for. C S.E. Cooney is a faerie queen barely trying to pass in the mundane world. This book is as luminous and flamboyant as she is." -- Tina Jens, award winning author of The Blues Ain't Nothin': Tales of the Lonesome Blues Pub
“Saint Death's Daughter is a triumph of a book, gorgeous beyond measure, fizzing with Cooney's love for language, her inventiveness in prose; it is also unbearably tender in how it addresses the idea of death and legacy, the love we can gather into a life before we curl to sleep in Death's arms.” -- Cassandra Khaw
"Cooney’s prose, is a vast, note-perfect song. There’s no voice like it." -- Robert V. S. Redick
"A mind-spinningly original bit of worldbuilding, and an emotional arc so moving that I cried like a baby." -- Caitlyn Paxson
"A giddy, glittering mosaic of incautious hope and over-generous loves" -- Kathleen Jennings
"It feels like overhearing a convo between Terry Pratchett and Susanna Clarke. A total must if you dig footnotes or fantasy." -- Patty Templeton
"Sumptuous, bawdy and layered as a mille-feuille... this book is impossible not to devour." -- Lisa L. Hannett
"This is a masterful work from a writer at the top of her game." -- Howard Andrew Jones, author of the Ring-Sworn Trilogy
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781786184702 |
PRICE | US$27.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 624 |
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