If you listen very closely (not that closely, honestly), you may hear the sound of a huge, whooping alarm going off, and a small cadre of book nerds screaming in excitement.
That would be because JOSIAH BANCROFT HAS WRITTEN A NEW BOOK!
NEW BANCROFT BOOK!
NEW BANCROFT!
The Books of Babel series is a favourite of pretty much every blogger here at the Fantasy Inn. In fact, sharing our love of those books was one of the things that brought our blogging team together (#ThankYouJosiah). We’re all beyond excited to see what such a talented writer can do with a brand new world, and we’re also excited to share the cover (created once again by the fabulous Ian Leino) and the blurb with our readers.
Get this one pre-ordered!
The Cover:
The Blurb:
From the acclaimed author of Senlin Ascends comes the first book in a wildly inventive new fantasy series where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists.
The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case.
But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake – going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven – the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent antiroyalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people.
Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next.
The Hexologists should drop in all good bookshops on the 28th of September, which if you ask me is just enough time to start a small cult in anticipation. Links to some common online bookstores below!
