Official blurb: There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today. ASUNDER is a masterful noveOfficial blurb: There is no doubt in my mind that Kerstin Hall is one of the great imaginative minds writing fantasy today. ASUNDER is a masterful novel, one that is both intimately character-focused and layered with intrigue, eldritch horrors, and high-octane action. It is immersive, inventive, and intensely unputdownable. I was spellbound from the first pages.
--- Coherent thoughts to come, but I just wanted to say that ASUNDER was the most intense, most inventive, most heart-wrenching fantasy novel I've read in a long time. The characters and the world have been living rent free in my head (like Ferain does, literally, lmao) ever since I read the last page. Preorder and thank me later.
Thank you to TorDotCom for the ARC via NetGalley! (now no one in my life will be able to escape me yelling about karys and ferain)...more
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