The Mortality of Queens
About this ebook
Georgian London is preparing for war with France, but its salons and ballrooms are haunted by a different rumour: ‘She’s coming back.’
Everyone will try to stop her but no-one is sure who, or where, or what she is.
Arthur knows Amorrie - his Umbra - will be the death of him. He doesn’t know why she is hunted in both realms.
Slip inside the most captivating fantasy since ‘Strange and Norrell’.
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About the author
Every-so-often a book bites so deeply I'm living for the moment when I pick it up again. When it happens, it demonstrates why stories are the best entertainment humankind has invented... It doesn't happen often enough.
These are the five things I want from the novels I read. The things I want to be judged on:
1. Characters that I believe in and whose fate I care about.
It doesn't matter if they inhabit fantasy, sci-fi, romance or crime; be they villains, minor characters or flawed protagonists - as soon as they say or do something that flips them out of character, a novel fails.
2. Mysteries that come together slowly and grip before I even realise that was where the story was going.
3. Plots which reach a tipping point where almost any outcome seems possible and yet credible.
4. Writing that expects me to contribute as a reader, where not everything is spelt out and the author has left room for my imagination to fill in the details.
5. Relevance, even when it's a million adjectives away from the here and now. A novel should shed light on the human experience.
If you want them too...
J. L. Dawn, London UK
