Roadside Magic

by Lilith Saintcrow

Overview

New York Times bestselling author Lilith Saintcrow returns to dark fantasy with the second novel in her Gallow & Ragged series where the faery world inhabits diners, dive bars and trailer parks.

Robin Ragged has revenge to wreak and redemption to steal. As for Jeremy Gallow, the poison in his wound is slowly killing him, while old friends turn traitor and long-lost enemies return to haunt him.

In the dive bars and trailer parks, the sidhe are hunting. War looms, and on a rooftop in the heart of the city, the most dangerous sidhe of all is given new life. He has only one thought, this new hunter: Where is the Ragged?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316277877
Publisher:	Orbit
Publication date:	01/26/2016
Series:	Gallow and Ragged , #2
Pages:	368
Sales rank:	671,467
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Lilith Saintcrow was born in New Mexico, bounced around the world as an Air Force brat, and fell in love with writing when she was ten years old. She currently lives in Vancouver, WA.

Editorial Reviews

11/16/2015
Saintcrow’s second Gallow & Ragged urban fantasy (after Trailer Park Fae) uses lush, striking prose to disguise a slow story. The entire book is about people chasing and fleeing from one another, and most of them wind up where they started. Robin Ragged, who’s half-human and half-Sidhe, discovered the true origin of the disease plaguing the Sidhe’s Summer Court. Now she’s on the run from both the Queen of Summer and the Lord of Unwinter. After an unpleasant confrontation with conniving near-feral trickster Robin Goodfellow, she retreats. She’s pursued by her former brother-in-law, the half-Sidhe Jeremiah Gallow, who wants to protect her, and the scarred Huntsman Alastair Creen, an agent of the queen. Gallow is also being hunted by agents of Unwinter, who want the lord’s horn back. The language is gorgeously evocative (“He was no more than a bow upon an instrument’s strings, drawing back and forth to sing a cacophony of shattered bone and split flesh”), but there’s painfully little character development. Those already invested in the series may be the most intrigued. Agent: Miriam Kriss, Irene Goodman Agency. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

"Lilith Saintcrow spins an incredibly imaginative and delicious tale with vivid language and a story you will not be able to put down. I loved every minute!"—Darynda Jones on Trailer Park Fae

"A true faery story, creepy and heroic by turns. Love and hope and a touch of Midsummer Night's Dream. I could not put it down."—Patricia Briggs on Trailer Park Fae

"Saintcrow deftly mixes high-minded fantasy magic with rough, real-world rust using prose that veers between the beautiful and the bloodcurdling. Honestly, I wish I'd written it."—Chuck Wendig on Trailer Park Fae

"Unique, twisted, lovely, and raw. Just fabulous."—Faith Hunter on Trailer Park Fae

"Painfully honest, beautifully strange, and absolutely worth your time. Lilith Saintcrow is at the top of her game. Don't miss this."—Seanan McGuire on Trailer Park Fae

"Saintcrow's urban fantasy series launch is expertly crafted with heartbreak and mistrust, far darker and lovelier than the title suggests... Saintcrow's artful, poignant descriptions remain with the reader long after the tale's end, as does the persistent sense of dark, unsettling unease."—Publishers Weekly on Trailer Park Fae

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