Alex Marshall (also known as Jesse Bullington) is the author of the Crimson Empire epic fantasy trilogy, which sounds like your typical door-stopping, grimdark affair (bloody battles, brutal villains, a quest for vengeance), until you look a bit closer and see what is there (a middle-aged female protagonist, a wildly diverse cast) and what isn’t […]
Cobalt Zosia, the former queen turned reluctant scourge, started the Crimson Empire trilogy on a simple quest for revenge: against the general, the queen, and the empire she blamed for the murder of her husband.