{"product_id":"wake-of-vultures","title":"Wake of Vultures","description":"Product Description\n\n\n'I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Read this one' - Kevin Hearne\n'I enjoyed the hell out of it' - Patrick Rothfuss\nNettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people and hard ground dusted with sand. She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy, raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one. She knows of nothing else. That is, until the day a stranger attacks her. When nothing, not even a sickle to the eye can stop him, Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood and he turns to black sand. \nAnd just like that, Nettie can see. \nBut her newfound sight is a blessing and a curse. Even if she doesn't understand what's under her own skin, she can sense what everyone else is hiding - at least physically. The world is full of evil, and now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert. Haunted by the spirits, Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead her to find her true kin . . . if the monsters along the way don't kill her first\nA rich, dark fantasy of destiny, death and the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface.\n\n\nReview\n\n\nI don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Read this one, because it's the\nthrilling, delightfully written and important one that you've always wanted to read (\nKevin Hearne, author of HOUNDED)\n\n\nI enjoyed the hell out of it (\nPatrick Rothfuss, author of THE NAME OF THE WIND)\n\nWAKE OF VULTURES is,\nquite simply, brilliant. A mind-bending mix of history, fantasy and folklore, it's a wild bronco of a read that'll leave you breathless for more (\nRachel Caine)\n\nPart Western, part supernatural mystery, this stands out for its tough lead Nettie Lonesome, an outsider treated like a slave at home, until she fights off an attacker, with violent and unexpected consequences. This is\n an important book that features a trans heroine in a sometimes diversity-lacking genre (\nINDEPENDENT)\n\nOf all the books I've reviewed this year,\nWake of Vultures' Nettie Lonesome stands out as\nthe most compelling, well-crafted protagonist I've encountered (\nRT BOOK REVIEWS)\n\nLila Bowen skillfully captures the voice of the protagonist Nellie in this fast-paced, gut-wrenching odyssey (\nHISTORICAL NOVEL SOCIETY)\n\nI don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today. Read this one, because it's the\n thrilling, delightfully written and important one that you've always wanted to read (\nKevin Hearne, author of HOUNDED)\n\nPart Western, part supernatural mystery, this stands out for its tough lead Nettie Lonesome, an outsider treated like a slave at home, until she fights off an attacker, with violent and unexpected consequences. This is\nan important book that features a trans heroine in a sometimes diversity-lacking genre (\nINDEPENDENT (’10 Best Fantasy Novels of 2015’))\n\nOf all the books I've reviewed this year,\nWake of Vultures' Nettie Lonesome stands out as the most\ncompelling,\nwell-crafted protagonist I've encountered (\nRT Book Reviews)\n\n\nWake of Vultures\n doesn't just fly - it soars. Lila Bowen brings in a wild fantasy quite unlike anything I've ever read, with a voice that's\nweird and wonderful. Bowen is truly a talent to watch.\n Hot damn, this book is good (\nChuck Wendig, author of BLACKBIRDS)\n\nSharp as a silver Bowie and unsentimental as a stray bullet, Lila Bowen's Nettie Lonesome\ndeserves a place among the legends of the Weird West (\nMatthew Stover, author of HEROES DIE)\n\n\nWake of Vultures is a\nferocious, fascinating take on the magical Old West - creatively and unsentimentally grim, yet\nrich with hope and heart (\nCherie Priest, author of BONESHAKER)\n\nNettie Lonesome is a complex, tough,\nall-around wonderful\nprotagonist. And Lila Bowen is equally wonderful for bringing us Nettie's story, set in a magical old west full of harpies and monster-hunters and stolen children and more. I look forward to more of Nettie's journey (\nJim C. Hines)\n\n\nA must-have for all modern fantasy collections and a great choice for adults and tee","brand":"smeikalbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39661057114197,"sku":"9780356506562N","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/products\/ae3d9e0a-c823-40ce-88f3-9c39d8414b47.jpg?v=1644280361","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/wake-of-vultures","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}