She is so BADASS!!! I absolutely adore her. This book was so short for a fantasy book, and yet so dense! Sooo many things happen, and you have time to get attached to the characters and root for them in like one chapter! And Sydney, the protagonist. Or, you know, making fun of other wizards for wearing cloaks. They don't actually use wands but, you know, move their hands weirdly and pronounce spells (can I mention how fun and poetic the spells are described? like: 'she spoke words that smelled harsh and bitter' or 'bent her fingers into unforgiving shapes' like seriously I can never have enough of synesthesia in books).Īs I said, this was harry Potter for adults, and it was so funny to read about wizards drinking, snogging, saying words like 'that sucks!' or 'dumbass'.

There is a bunch of Houses of magic people who are filthy rich and bored and challenge each other with mortal magic duels. If I had to describe this book in a few words, I would describe it as 'Harry Potter for adults'. I mean this book was one hell of a ride perfect. And I don't mean like 'this is a modern classic o m g literally Shakespeare reborn' perfect. She talks about books at Epigraph to Epilogue. You can find her on Twitter and on Instagram. In the past, she’s been a competitive fencer and a college professor. Her next novel, A Sleight of Shadows, the sequel to An Unkindness of Magicians, is coming April 25, 2023. She was the writer for the first 18 issues of The Books of Magic, part of DC Comics' Sandman Universe. Her short fiction collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone, collects work that has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, performed as part of Selected Shorts, and anthologized in year’s best and best of volumes, as well as new pieces original to the collection. An Unkindness of Magicians was named a best book of 2017 by NPR, and won a 2018 Alex Award. Her novella, The End of the Sentence, co-written with Maria Dahvana Headley, was one of NPR's best books of 2014, and her debut novel, Roses and Rot was a finalist for the Locus Award for Best First Novel. Kat Howard is a writer of fantasy, science fiction, and horror who lives and writes in Minnesota.

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