Vanessa Le

The Last Bloodcarver (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Nhika is a bloodcarver. She has the power to alter human biology to heal or to harm with just a touch. 'You'll gasp, you'll scream, you'll cry, and you'll be begging for the next book.' Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights In Theumas, Nhika is seen as a monster who kills for pleasure, and her gift is highly prized in the city's criminal underworld. When Nhika is finally captured, she is sold to the highest bidder an aristocratic girl dressed in white. But her mysterious buyer is not looking for an assassin. She needs Nhika to heal the only witness to her father's murder. Nhika vows to hunt down the killer and all signs point to Ven Kochin, an alluring yet entitled physician's aide. Despite Kochin's relentless attempts to push her away, Nikha can't help feeling drawn into his opulent world. But she soon finds herself in a fight for her life and for the future of her own kind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Altersempfehlung: ab 13 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780861547982
• Artikelnr.: 69132775

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Le is a Vietnamese American author from the Pacific Northwest. She recently graduated from Brown University with a concentration in Health and Human Biology. She loves reading and writing stories about the Asian diasporic experience and high-concept magic systems. You can also find her gaming too much, drawing too little, or appeasing her two shiba inus.

Rezensionen

*FOUR starred reviews*

"Le skillfully brings to life a gritty world filled with a beautifully crafted cast and an intricate magic system I've never seen before. A smart, lush, and utterly compelling read." - Marie Lu, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Legend

"Brilliantly rendered. The Last Bloodcarver unfolds in gripping detail, following a mystery colored by its beautiful, destructive city. You'll gasp, you'll scream, you'll cry, and you'll be begging for the next book." - Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of These Violent Delights

"The Last Bloodcarver is the perfect blend of sci-fi, fantasy, and romance, with a world that feels lived in and characters that come alive on the page. A unique and beautifully written novel-Le is a talent to watch!" - Axie Oh, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea

"The Last Bloodcarver has it all-a wonderfully unique magic system, heartfelt themes of legacy and diaspora, and obsession-worthy characters. I need more Nhika and Kochin now!" - Joan He, New York Times-bestselling author of The Ones We're Meant to Find

"Absolutely captivating. In The Last Bloodcarver, Le crafts a richly imagined fantasy world, filled with complex, nuanced characters and a magic system that feels brand new. This is one to be savored." - Grace D. Li, New York Times-bestselling author of Portrait of a Thief

"The Last Bloodcarver is fantasy for the vicious, bloody and unrepentant, but fear not: in Nhika's journey, Le has crafted a story that is, in its heart, about her tender homecoming." - Em X. Liu, author of The Death I Gave Him

"An entrancingly well-written debut." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Le expertly crafts a Vietnamese-inspired dark fantasy debut via visceral and exquisitely rendered prose, intertwining a murder investigation with themes of unresolved grief, medical ethics, and lost heritage." - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Medically based magic, a world full of mechanistic creations, and incredibly lovable side characters are icing on the cake of this slow burn, deeply romantic, and darkly biological fantasy with a Vietnamese foundation...An engrossing, emotionally intense debut." - Booklist, starred review

"All collections will benefit from this unequivocal first purchase that will resonate especially deeply with immigrant and diasporic teens struggling to see themselves in media." - School Library Journal, starred review

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