Here’s an epic fantasy where every character and genre convention is an endangered species. But Hurley’s latest closes out a trilogy, capping the Nebula and Hugo winner’s first (bloody, bloody) stab at epic fantasy, and reviewing an epic fantasy trilogy is less like reviewing a book than like reviewing a months-long road trip, right down to the intense consultation of maps.īack before the release date, I read 60 pages of The Broken Heavens and marveled, as I had with the first two books in Hurley’s Worldbreaker Saga, at the author’s relentless inventiveness, zest for storytelling, breathtaking ruthlessness, and scorched-earth policy toward expectations. Kameron Hurley’s bloody, thrilling mic-drop of a fantasy novel, The Broken Heavens, hit bookstores in mid-January, and here it is, almost March Madness, and only now am I typing out judgments like “bloody,” “thrilling,” and “mic-drop of a fantasy novel.” The business of reviewing is bound up with the business of publicity, which demands that the critics who receive review copies of books get the job done reasonably close to the release date. Please forgive the lateness of this review.
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