These monsters of Elendhaven will have their revenge on everyone who wronged the city, even if they have to burn the world to do it. His frail master sends him out on errands, twisting him with magic, crafting a plan too cruel to name, while the monster’s heart grows fonder and colder and more cunning.
A thing without a name stalks the city, a thing shaped like a man, with a dark heart and long pale fingers yearning to wrap around throats. The Monster of Elendhaven is brutal and full of passages that evoke such dark imagery. Wracked by plague, abandoned by the South, stripped of industry and left to die. The city of Elendhaven sulks on the edge of the ocean. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of BabelĪ Finalist for the 2019 Shirley Jackson Award!ĭebut author Jennifer Giesbrecht paints a darkly compelling fantasy of revenge in The Monster of Elendhaven, a dark fantasy about murder, a monster, and the magician who loves both.
“A tight, perfectly crafted story about retribution and what monsters deserve stylish, quirky, and weirdly sexy? I’m into it.” -R. “A black tide of perversity, violence, and lush writing.
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