This singular work keeps readers thinking long after the final page.- Library Journal, starred reviewĪn excellent recommendation for those who enjoyed Lev Grossman's The Magicians and Lauren Oliver's Replica.- School Library Journal, starred review McGuire sets a high bar for alchemy-based stories in this new stand-alone, twisting themes of time and space as seen through the eyes of children. Satisfying on all levels of the reading experience: thrilling, emotionally resonant, and cerebral.'- Kirkus Reviews, starred review This is a fascinating novel by an author of consummate skill.- Publishers Weekly, starred review It's the kind of book where you want to reach into the page just to help them out, to warn them of what's coming. And this is the greatest trick McGuire pulls here. They're its pulse and purpose - these two supernaturally gifted kids who come off like kids. Roger and Dodger are the heart of this story. McGuire has an uncanny knack for taking the worst things that lurk in the shadows and weaving them into an absolute delight.-Becky Chambers Pray it isn't attained.Ī USA Today Bestseller, and named as one of Paste Magazine's 30 Best Fantasy Novels of the Decade! But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him.

Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it.

All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame. WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL, 2020!

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