Her writing isn’t so much inspirational, but inspiration itself: gentry-magic spun into pages and paragraphs of glittering, fizzing, jaw-dropping beauty.” “Few people create worlds as lavish and sensual as those to spring from Cooney’s effervescent imagination. Kathleen Jennings, World Fantasy Award-winning author of FLYAWAY
A baroquely intense confection with a core of typewriters and coal fortunes, DARK BREAKERS is compounded of voluptuous invention and ferocious structural loves-for new romances and old friends, for the works of hands, for mortality and its gifts, and all the possibilities of worlds bleeding, weeping, wandering into each other’s arms.” “DARK BREAKERS is a magnificent parure of novellas and matched stories, a suite of jewelled and velvet tales, delicately linked and ferociously glittering. Theodora Goss, World Fantasy and Mythopoeic Award-winning author of The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series And if it gives you strange dreams-well, what did you expect of fairy cake?” Since you can’t eat DARK BREAKERS, I suggest you read it slowly, savoring every slice. Cooney’s prose is like a cake baked by the fairies-beautifully layered, rich and precise, so delicious that it should be devoured with a silver fork. Fran Wilde, two-time Nebula Award-winning author of UPDRAFT and RIVERLAND If Titania herself were to commission a book, it would be this one.” Cooney’s DARK BREAKERS will transfix and transform you, and, should you chance upon its characters in a glittering hallway, you had best be wearing your fanciest moonlight, and be ready to dance. “Welcome to a Gilded Era like you’ve never before known and will never be able to forget. In her introduction to DARK BREAKERS, Crawford Award-winning author Sharon Shinn advises those who pick up this book to “settle in for a fantastical read” full of “vivid world-building, with layer upon layer of detail prose so dense and gorgeous you can scoop up the words like handfuls of jewels a mischievous sense of humor and a warm and hopeful heart.” Cooney that expand on the thrice-enfolded worlds first introduced in her Locus and World Fantasy award-nominated novella DESDEMONA AND THE DEEP. Two gentry queens of the Valwode plot to hijack a human rocketship and steal the moon out of the sky.ĭARK BREAKERS gathers three new and two previously uncollected tales from World Fantasy Award-winning writer C. Returning to an oak grove to scatter her husband’s ashes, an elderly widow meets an otherworldly friend, who offers her a momentous choice. An investigative reporter infiltrates the Seafall City Laundries to write the exposé of a lifetime, and uncovers secrets she never believed possible. Pulled into the Veil Between Worlds, two feuding neighbors (and a living statue) get swept up in a brutal war of succession. A young human painter and an ageless gentry queen fall in love over spilled wine-at the risk of his life and her immortality.
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