I adored Rebecca Roanhorse’s first in the Meridian series, Black Sun, grounded in pre-Columbian Meso-American mythology and geography, and I can’t wait to read this sure-to-be-exciting followup. Together, the bone ghosts serve the refined clients of Charm’s tasteful bordello, and when Charm’s emperor is murdered, she follows his last instructions: to find who has killed him, and to send his dangerous sons far from the throne.
Charm, a powerful witch and mistress to the kingdom’s aged emperor, spends her days imprisoned in luxury, creating bone ghost simulacra of herself at different ages in life. But I can tell you that the visual creativity of The Bone Orchard is stunning.
I hesitate to claim any knowledge of or expertise within this lovely, morbid subgenre. There’s, like, so much good dark fantasy out there. Secret societies, vanishing buildings, and a rekindled romance soon follow, for what is sure to be one of the cleverest mysteries of the year.Ģ020 was my big gothic year, 2021 was all about the horror, and now 2022 is going to be the year I Notice Dark Fantasy. If you enjoyed John Green’s Paper Towns, but always wanted to read a book about ghost maps written for adults and that actually made sense, then The Cartographers is the book for you! Nell Young, once a rising star in the world of cartography, is working a dead-end job making fake old maps when the sudden death of her famed archivist father sends her on the adventure of a lifetime. Oh, and it has something to do with a whole bunch of poisoned seagulls… With the lights gone dark, gang warfare, dark magic, and petty politics hold sway, but in Westside Lights, someone’s figured out a way to turn the streetlamps back on, and not everyone’s happy.
Akers’ incredibly imaginative Westside series, in which the Western half of Manhattan suddenly experiences the failure of all modern technology.
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