The Door of Shadows
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- Apr 13, 2027
- Page Count
- 384 pages
- Publisher
- Redhook
- ISBN-13
- 9780316600989
Caspian Verne is destined for greatness: to join the powerful worlds-walking scholars and fulfil his grandmother’s ambitions. It’s also a destiny he’s determined to get out of. Instead, he’s been secretly pursuing a quest that could upend his grandmother’s machinations for good. For there is an astral said to grant a powerful favour to those willing to pay the price. The only problem is that the god is missing: a myth of myths. And without the ability to walk between worlds, he’ll never be able to escape the long shadow of his family’s crushing power.
When a ritual to track down the missing astral goes terribly awry, Caspian finds himself at the mercy of Mira, who has nothing to do with the scholars and yet possesses a worlds-walking gift of her own. Desperate, he makes a bargain he has no intention of keeping: together, they will find the astral and split the favour between them.
As Caspian and Mira hunt the missing astral across worlds, they discover that not all doors are meant to be opened. For his grandmother has made a bargain of her own at terrible cost. And something dark is stalking the scholars . . .
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"Georgia Summers’s magical bookshop is my new favorite place. It may be fraught and deadly, and even a little seedy—as flawed as Cassandra Fairfax, its hesitant new owner—but the mystery and danger are part of its charm. The Bookshop Below is a delicious read, I loved every second of it."Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author, on The Bookshop Below
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"Steeped in bookish magic and infused with the comfort and terror of a favorite tragic fairytale, The Bookshop Below is darkly whimsical and utterly heart-wrenching."Tori Bovalino, author of My Throat An Open Grave, on The Bookshop Below
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"Darkly lush and deeply compelling, The Bookshop Below takes readers on a perilous journey into a world of inky spells, powerful books, and a secret society that will stop at nothing to control them. Part murder mystery, part portal fantasy, part love story, and wholly engrossing, this had me riveted until the final page."M. Stevenson, author of Behooved, on The Bookshop Below
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"Rich, dark and romantic, The Bookshop Below is a must read for everyone who believes in the magic of books."M.A. Kuzniar, bestselling author of Midnight in Everwood, on The Bookshop Below
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"The City of Stardust opens with a haunting prologue that weaves as enchanting a spell as any of the terrible and wonderful magic in the book, and it just gets better from there. Summers' debut is a dark, gorgeous tale of curses, gods and monsters, with the love and loyalty of family at its heart."Sangu Mandanna, bestselling author of The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, on The City of Stardust
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"A dark dream of a novel, Georgia Summers’s debut is like a sweet shop—an elegant, mysterious one—full of all my favorite things: a grand old house, strange magic, deep lore, a family curse, a cabal, a globe criss-crossing heroine, otherworldly beings, and a new mythos that feels both timeless and original. Welcome to The City of Stardust. Enjoy—and also beware. This fairy tale is deadly."Laini Taylor, New York Times bestselling author, on The City of Stardust
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"A story as darkly wondrous as midnight. Summers brilliantly takes our yearning to open doors to magical new worlds, and twists it into a seductively vicious dream of darkness, blood, and winged horrors. When monsters must be satiated, there is no escaping the choices between love and betrayal; survival and sacrifice. Enthralling to the last page."Shelley Parker-Chan, Sunday Times bestselling author of She Who Became the Sun, on The City of Stardust
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"In opening The City of Stardust, you enter a Gaiman-esque otherworld of scheming scholars and soul-stealing gods, where a daughter's quest to understand her mother's absence is as compelling as her fight against an ancient curse. The ghost of the city undone by pride and a broken promise haunts every page of this memorable and accomplished debut."Lucy Holland, author of Sistersong, on The City of Stardust
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