Saint Death's Herald by C S E Cooney
Lanie Stones lives to love and serve Saint Death. And damn it duodecifold, Saint Death needs herfirst and foremost for her ability to lay the unrestful dead to rest. Unfortunately for Lanie, the most restless of these unrestful dead" happens to be her own great-grandfather, the powerful necromancer Irradiant Stones...
“Grisly, dark, lovely, funny, heartfelt”—Kirkus, starred review
“Every character arrives in a burst: fully-realized, always finding their mark, dripping with detail and a fire in their heart.”—Tor.com
“Wildly inventive.”—Buzzfeed
“You can’t help but learn to love death alongside her.”—Rhianna Pratchett
“Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy—I have never read anything so utterly alive.”—Amal El-Mohtar
“Effulgent, effervescent, effusively beautiful. Every superlative I can think of and then some. Cooney’s Saint Death’s Herald is a perfect joy of a book and I love it like I love the sun.” —Cassandra Khaw, author of The Library at Hellebore
“Bold and ambitious, brilliantly black-humoured and fantastically strange. Saint Death’s Herald is an ode to gods, ghosts, Death and necromancers – and getting out alive. Gruesomely gorgeous.” —Angela “A.G.” Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
“An incredible book.” —FanFiAddict
“Highly recommended to lovers of necromancers, LGBTQ+ fantasy, and tangential footnotes.” —Paste
“Every character arrives in a burst: fully-realized, always finding their mark, dripping with detail and a fire in their heart.”—Tor.com
“Wildly inventive.”—Buzzfeed
“You can’t help but learn to love death alongside her.”—Rhianna Pratchett
“Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy—I have never read anything so utterly alive.”—Amal El-Mohtar
“Effulgent, effervescent, effusively beautiful. Every superlative I can think of and then some. Cooney’s Saint Death’s Herald is a perfect joy of a book and I love it like I love the sun.” —Cassandra Khaw, author of The Library at Hellebore
“Bold and ambitious, brilliantly black-humoured and fantastically strange. Saint Death’s Herald is an ode to gods, ghosts, Death and necromancers – and getting out alive. Gruesomely gorgeous.” —Angela “A.G.” Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
“An incredible book.” —FanFiAddict
“Highly recommended to lovers of necromancers, LGBTQ+ fantasy, and tangential footnotes.” —Paste
C. S. E. Cooney is the author of World Fantasy Award-winning Bone Swans: Stories. Her short novel The Twice-Drowned Saint is included in Mythic Delirium’s anthology The Sinister Quartet. Other work includes Tor.com novella Desdemona and the Deep, and a poetry collection: How to Flirt in Faerieland and Other Wild Rhymes, which features her Rhysling Award-winning “The Sea King’s Second Bride.” Her short fiction and poetry can be found in Jonathan Strahan’s anthology Dragons, Ellen Datlow’s Mad Hatters and March Hares: All-New Stories from the World of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, Rich Horton’s Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy, and elsewhere.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781837864492 |
| ISBN 10 | 1837864497 |
| Title | Saint Death's Herald |
| Author | C S E Cooney |
| Series | Saint Death Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Rebellion Publishing Ltd. |
| Year published | 2025-04-24 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |