Mirror Empire

Hurley reuses old tropes to excellent effect, interweaving them with original elements to create a world that will fascinate and delight her established fans and appeal to newcomers. Readers will blaze through this opening installment and eagerly await the promised sequel. - Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) This is a hugely ambitious work, bloody and violent, with interestingly gender-flipped politics and a host of factions to keep straight, as points of view switch often. Although it is a challenging read, the strong narrative thread in this new series from Hurley (God's War) pulls readers through the imaginative tangle of multiple worlds and histories colliding. - Library Journal (Starred Review) With vividly inventive world building and a fast-paced plot, The Mirror Empire opens a smart, brutal, and ambitious epic fantasy series. Book two is already on my must-read list. - Kate Elliott, author of the Spiritwalker Trilogy There's a powerful yet elegant brutality in The Mirror Empire that serves notice to traditional epic fantasy: move over, make way, an intoxicating new blend of storytelling has arrived. These are pages that will command your attention. -Bradley P. Beaulieu, author of The Lays of Anuskaya trilogy The Mirror Empire is the most original fantasy I've read in a long time, set in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre. A complex and intricate book full of elegant ideas and finely-drawn characters. - Adrian Tchaikovsky, Gemmel Legend Finalist and author of The Shadows of the Apt series Taking epic fantasy down challenging and original paths. Thoughtful and thought-provoking with every twist and turn. -Juliette E McKenna, author of the Hadrumal Crisis series For me it did all the things a fantasy should do -- holding our own societies up to the light by reflecting off worlds that are very different. Add in a magic system where the users are