Description: "The great city of Alt Coulumb is in crisis. The moon goddess Seril, long thought dead, is back--and the people of Alt Coulumb aren't happy. Protests rock the city, and Kos Everburning's creditors attempt a hostile takeover of the fire god's church. Tara Abernathy, the god's in-house Craftswoman, must defend the church against the world's fiercest necromantic firm--and against her old classmate, a rising star in the Craftwork world"--Amazon.com.
Brief description: Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning author, MAX GLADSTONE, has been thrown from a horse in Mongolia and once wrecked a bicycle in Angkor Wat. He is the author of many books, including Last Exit, Empress of Forever, the Craft Sequence of fantasy novels and, with Amal El-Mohtar, the viral New York Times bestseller This Is How You Lose the Time War. His dreams are much nicer than you'd expect.
Review Quotes:
"Enthralling." --Publishers Weekly, starred review, on Last First Snow
"Elegant and ferocious." --Daniel José Older, author of Half Resurrection Blues, on Last First Snow "Brilliant, elegant, epic, astonishing, smart, gritty.... Last First Snow is another wondrous visit to the fantastic world of the Craft Sequence." --Ken Liu, author of The Grace of Kings"Gladstone gives us wonderfully relevant bits and pieces of the modern world, turned upside-down and inside-out and garnished with skeleton kings, serpent gods, and lawyer-magicians. It's glorious." --Django Wexler, author of The Thousand Names, on Last First Snow "I'm having Max Gladstone killed. He's too good already to be allowed to live. If this is early work, the rest of us are out of a job." --Elizabeth Bear on Full Fathom Five "Gladstone packs more ideas into a chapter than most writers manage in a full novel." --Brian Staveley on Full Fathom Five "Newcomers and fans of the series alike will enjoy the mystery, demon-caused mayhem and fast-moving plot in this stellar, engaging read." --RT Book Reviews, 4 1/2 stars, on Two Serpents Rise