2021 LODESTAR AWARD for BEST YOUNG ADULT BOOK Fourteen-year-old Mona isn’t like the wizards charged with defending the city. She can’t control lightning or speak to water. Her familiar is a sourdough starter and her magic only works on bread. She has a comfortable life in her aunt’s bakery making gingerbread men dance. But Mona’s life is turned upside down when she finds a dead body on the bakery floor. An assassin is stalking the streets of Mona’s city, preying on magic folk, and it appears that Mona is his next target. And in an embattled city suddenly bereft of wizards, the assassin may be the least of Mona’s worries…

Una novela repleta de leyendas y mitología árabe, con el estilo lírico e inolvidable de una de las grandes autoras de fantasía de todos los tiempos. En un mundo oscuro y brillante, repleto de elegantes castillos y seres crueles y misteriosos, gobierna Azhrarn, príncipe de los demonios. A pesar de tener un mundo entero a sus pies, Azhrarn quiere más, y sus caprichosas intervenciones en las vidas humanas, en sus deseos, pasiones y penas, cambian la vida de los mortales para siempre. La obra, imbuida del estilo y el folklore de Las mil y una noches, logra convertirse en una novela de fantasía única y original gracias a su rico worldbuilding, su tono de cuento oscuro y sus inolvidables personajes. A través de varios relatos interconectados conoceremos la pena, el dolor y las pulsiones más oscuras pero también aquello que da valor a la vida humana.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson brings us deeper into the Cosmere universe with a rollicking, riveting tale that will appeal to fans of The Princess Bride. The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death?