Quick! What comes to mind when someone says “1770, Boston”? Funny hats! Colonies! The Adams Family! (Not that one.) Redcoats! Violence in the streets. Snow! Almost tea-bags-in-a-harbor time! …More snow! All accurate images, and all good starting points for Dead Man’s Reach, the latest in D.B. Jackson’s Thieftaker series. But there’s another key word you’re missing: magic.
This July, Tor Books released the fourth volumes of two very different urban fantasy series: D.B. Jackson’s Dead Man’s Reach, the latest installment of the Thieftaker Chronicles, about a supernatural detective of sorts in Revolution-era America; and Max Gladstone’s Last First Snow, part of the Craft Sequence, a mix of legal thriller and second world fantasy. […]
The new releases take a bit of a breather this week, but we’ve still got the long-awaited print debut of prequel to the Sword of Truth series, a kickass historical fantasy, and the return of a pair of tried-and-true classics.