Fable For the End of the World

Ava Reid

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Del Rey
04 April 2025

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Adventure; Science fiction; Fantasy; Romance

Sapphic Hunger Games – need I say more? This book tackled several tough topics regarding consumerism, climate change, publicity and media, and misogyny, through a disturbing dystopian depiction of the future. The romance was very sweet, and despite the bleak premise, the book was still hopeful.- Leilani

The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in this stand-alone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.

The epic standalone dystopian romance from the Sunday Time bestselling author of A Study in Drowning and Lady Macbeth. Perfect for fans of The Hunger Games and The Last of Us

SURVIVAL SACRIFICE A LOVE THAT RISKS EVERYTHING -----------------------------------------------------------------------'Stunning . . . Among the dystopian greats.' Chloe Gong 'Brilliant and devastating, Fable for the End of the World will arm you with the strongest tools we have- both anger and hope.' Allison Saft 'Knife-edged and tender-hearted, I will be thinking of the final line for years to come' Courtney Gould

------------------------------------------------------ By encouraging massive accumulations of debt, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.

Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town, barely scraping a living from their taxidermy shop. But their mother has secretly accrued enormous debt - and the only way out is to offer her daughter up to be a sacrifice for Caerus's livestreamed assassination event- the Lamb's Gauntlet.

Melinoe is the assassin chosen for this spectacle. The product of years of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she's a living weapon, famous for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. But she's also haunted by her failure in the last gauntlet, when she broke down live on screen.

But as Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, each determined to claim victory, they begin to question what they've been taught. Could there be more to life than survival? Could they be capable of more than death?

Could they, against all the odds, be falling in love?

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PRAISE FOR AVA REID

'A gargantuan hit . . . Dark and brooding, skillful storytelling and intricate character development breathe new life into literature. Dripping in atmosphere . . . One to order immediately.' Glamour

'A bewitching read with prose like gold.' Tasha Suri

'A knife of a book- blood-stained, sharply beautiful, and necessary . . . I couldn't look away' Alix E. Harrow

'I was spellbound from the very first page.' Freya Marske

By: Ava Reid
Imprint: Del Rey
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 242mm, Width: 163mm, Spine: 35mm
Weight: 596g
ISBN: 9781529948301
ISBN 10: 1529948304
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 04 April 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ava Reid is the Sunday Times and No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, Juniper & Thorn, The Wolf and the Woodsman and Lady Macbeth. She has a degree in political science from Barnard College and lives in New Jersey.

Reviews for Fable For the End of the World

“Nobody balances sweetness with brutality, tenderness with violence, quite like Ava Reid. This hit all the nostalgic Hunger Games notes while bringing fresh sapphic blood to the dystopian genre - I inhaled it!” * L. K. Steven, author of Silvercloak and Our Infinite Fates *