Kat Howard. (2017). An Unkindness of Magicians. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio.

Kat Howard. 2017. An Unkindness of Magicians. Simon & Schuster Audio.

Kat Howard, An Unkindness of Magicians. Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

Kat Howard. An Unkindness of Magicians. Unabridged Simon & Schuster Audio, 2017.

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   • bioText: Kat Howard's short fiction has been nominated for the World Fantasy Award, anthologized in best of and annual best of collections, and performed on NPR. You can find it in her collection, A Cathedral of Myth and Bone. She is the author of the critically acclaimed Roses and Rot and the Alex Award–winning An Unkindness of Magicians. She is also one of the writers of the Books of Magic series, set in the Sandman Universe. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota, and you can find her on twitter at @KatWithSword.
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"A remarkable writer." —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods

An Alex Award Winner

There is a dark secret that is hiding at the heart of New York City and diminishing the city's magicians' power in this fantasy thriller by acclaimed author Kat Howard.
In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn't want to help the system, she wants to destroy it.

Sydney comes from the House of Shadows, which controls the magic with the help of sacrifices from magicians.

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     June 19, 2017
     Howard’s sophomore novel (after Roses and Rot) is zippy at the expense of character development. Sydney is a magician in an alternate modern-day New York who’s hired to represent House Beauchamps in the Turning, a magical competition that determines the hierarchy of houses in the magical community called the Unseen World. Magic isn’t an ability magicians have unlimited access to, but rather a resource that can be bottled and transferred from magician to magician. As a child, Sydney was a captive of the House of Shadows, who siphoned some of her magic to strengthen the abilities of other magicians, but she won her partial freedom after challenging the house. Now, with each magical duel she wins, her abilities grow and the reservoir of stolen magic shrinks. The houses in power plan to eliminate her if she survives the Turning. The plot is very rushed, and readers will find Sydney difficult to connect with; any obstacles or sources of tension are no match for her magic. The other characters treat events that should be devastating without prolonged concern, thus discouraging the reader from getting emotionally involved. When Howard slows down, both the characters and the Unseen World flourish in her gorgeous prose, but these moments are too few.

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   • content: Sydney's arrival starts a chain of events that alters the course of the Unseen World, and Madeleine Maby narrates the vicious battle that ensues. While the power structure in the Unseen World closely mirrors our own (rich, white, male, moneyed), there are exceptions, and voicing those exceptions is where Maby shines. She deftly captures the rage that drives Sydney's actions, the ambition that informs Laurent Beauchamps's choices, and the regret that colors Miranda Prospero's decisions. Even within the echelons of power, Maby creates nuance: Ian Merlin is aware of his privilege and fights for a better world, while the two villains are chillingly cold toward those they destroy in their quest for power. K.M.P. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine

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"A remarkable writer." —Neil Gaiman, bestselling author of American Gods

An Alex Award Winner

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In New York City, magic controls everything. But the power of magic is fading. No one knows what is happening, except for Sydney—a new, rare magician with incredible power that has been unmatched in decades, and she may be the only person who is able to stop the darkness that is weakening the magic. But Sydney doesn't want to help the system, she wants to destroy it.

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