Master fantasist Seanan McGuire introduces readers to an America run in the shadows by the Alchemical Congress, a powerful society focused on transmuting reality itself.
Meet Roger. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.
Meet Dodger, his twin. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. All she understands, she does so through the power of math.
Roger and Dodger aren’t exactly human, though they don’t realise it. They aren’t exactly gods, either. Not entirely. Not yet.
Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Reed created Dodger and her brother. He’s not their father. Not quite. But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own.
Godhood is attainable. Pray it isn’t attained.
Star Rating: —> 4.5 Stars
Well Holy Mother of the Science Fiction/ Fantasy Gods !
THIS WAS... I don't even have a word or groupings of words to describe what this was at the moment? My mind is still melting, i'm just now remembering to blink again, and oh, yeah, i've finally gotten around to lifting my jaw back to its upright & locked position. Needless to say, I am in some major need of a glass of water, some eyedrops, & to rest my brain for a bit because just... WO-OWWWW, Whew! This book truly was one hell of a crazy, truly transportive & immersive, 'Um, is the fabric of reality is tearing right now, or is it just me?!' kind of journey!
Seanan McGuire does it once again, folks.
RTC !
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