The Glass Sentence

A New York Times Bestseller An IndieBound National Bestseller A Summer/Fall 2014 Indies Introduce New Voices Selection A Top Ten Kid's Next Selection A Publishers Weekly Flying Start A Washington Post Summer Book Club Selection A Junior Library Guild Selection One of Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Reads An Amazon Summer 2014 Reading Selection An Amazon Top 20 Children's/YA Book of 2014 An ABC Best Book of 2014 * Brilliant in concept, breathtaking in scale and stellar in its worldbuilding; this is a world never before seen in fiction . . . Wholly original and marvelous beyond compare. --Kirkus Reviews, starred review * A thrilling, time-bending debut . . . It's a cracking adventure, and Grove bolsters the action with commentary on xenophobia and government for hire, as well as a fascinating system of map magic. --Publishers Weekly, starred review * Stellar . . richly layered and emotionally engaging from the first page through to the intriguing cliffhanger end. --BCCB, starred review * A mind-blowing debut . . . The bookmaking behind this first novel is as elegant as the maps within it.--Shelf Awareness, starred review Wonderful. This author's imagination is just amazing. --Nancy Pearl on NPR.org I am in no doubt about the energy of S.E. Grove as a full-fledged, pathfinding fantasist. I look forward to the next installment to place upon the pile. Intensely. --Gregory Maguire, The New York Times Book Review Not since Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass have I seen such an original and compelling world built inside a book. --Megan Whalen Turner, New York Times bestselling author of A Conspiracy of Kings Absolutely marvelous. It's the best book I've read in a long time. --Nancy Farmer, National Book Award-winning author of The House of the Scorpion A page-turner . . . So imaginative.--Meghan Cox Gurdon, The Wall Street Journal Exuberantly imagined [and] exquisite.--Elizabeth Wein, New York Times best-selling author of Code Name Verity