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Product details:
- Edition number Reprint
- Publisher Margaret K. McElderry Books
- Date of Publication 24 November 2022
- Number of Volumes Trade Paperback
- ISBN 9781534453579
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages512 pages
- Size 209x139x30 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations f-c cvr-- spfx: matte finish, spot gloss 465
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Short description:
A fresh and thrilling historical fantasy that is PENNY DREADFUL meets THE GILDED WOLVES, set in 1880s London, following an African tightrope walker with a secret: she cannot die; but when she gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending, she's drafted in the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is.
MoreLong description:
An African tightrope walker who can’t die gets embroiled in a secret society’s deadly gladiatorial tournament in this “bloodily spectacular” (Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights) historical fantasy set in an alternate 1880s London, perfect for fans of The Last Magician and The Gilded Wolves.
As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is used to being strange. She is certainly an unusual sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret that even “strange” doesn’t capture…&&&8203;
She cannot die.
Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. But that mission gets more complicated when she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam seems to know much more about her than he lets on, and he shares with her a terrifying revelation: the world is ending, and the Committee will decide who lives…and who doesn’t.
To help them choose a leader for the upcoming apocalypse, the Committee is holding the Tournament of Freaks, a macabre competition made up of vicious fighters with fantastical abilities. Adam wants Iris to be his champion, and in return he promises her the one thing she wants most: the truth about who she really is.
If Iris wants to learn about her shadowy past, she has no choice but to fight. But the further she gets in the grisly tournament, the more she begins to remember&&&8212;and the more she wonders if the truth is something best left forgotten.
