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NIGHTBIRDS
Kate Armstrong's electrifying and page-turning debut, NIGHTBIRDSa 1920s-tinted YA fantasy that welcomes you into fine parlors that flow with illicit magic and secret clubs where almost anything can be had for a price. Think of this novelthe first in a duologyas Carnival Row meets THE GREAT GATSBY.
"A luscious, sumptuously woven and totally addictive fantasy. It's like Gatsby with magic and sky-high stakes, layer upon layer of incredible world-building peeling back as we slowly uncover the spider's web of stories and secrets our characters are hoarding. From the gritty docks to the glitzy ballrooms to the magical speakeasy through the back of a wardrobe, I'd kill to have written this myself.
You will hear whispers about the Nightbirds:
girls with a rare type of magic in their blood.
With just a kiss, they can change your fate or make your fortune.
They are difficult to find, their identities a well-kept secret.
But no secret this big can stay hidden forever.
Magic may be illegal in Simta, but you can taste its delights if you know which whispers to heed. None are as tantalizing as the ones about the Nightbirds. At the start of Matilde's third season as a Nightbird, she is sure of her gilded world and her place within it. What she isn't sure of are her new Nightbird sisters: Sayer, the girl from the wrong side of the canals with a score she will do anything to settle, and Æsa, afraid of everything and herself. They are not friends, but their gifts make them all cherished, well-guarded treasures. Nothing can touch them. Or so they think, until their first clients of the Season attack them. One is an assassin, sent by a mysterious cult who sees them as a dangerous evil. Another is a spy sent by the queen, who wants to kidnap them to achieve her own ends. With Simta's most powerful out to catch or kill them, suddenly their secrets no longer seem safe.
Forced to run into the city's shadows, they discover an illicit underground where magic is flourishing. They also find out they aren't the only girls with magic, and that much of what they've been taught is a lie designed to keep them from coming into their true powers. In this new world, they discover that their gifts are more powerful than they knew and bigger than anyone imagined. As they are drawn ever deeper into a tug-of-war for power, the Nightbirds face dire choices: lean into their magic or suppress it? Use it to remake their city or pursue their own aims? No matter what they do, the shadows won't hide them forever. They will have to decide what they are willing to fight for and be brave enough to step into the light. And then
Kate is originally from Washington, DC, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband. A former high school English teacher with a degree in journalism, she's been a nonfiction book editor for more than 10 years with National Geographic and others, and is the founder of the The Exploress, a nonfiction podcast about women in history that has more than 200,000 downloads.
You will hear whispers about the Nightbirds:
girls with a rare type of magic in their blood.
With just a kiss, they can change your fate or make your fortune.
They are difficult to find, their identities a well-kept secret.
But no secret this big can stay hidden forever.
Magic may be illegal in Simta, but you can taste its delights if you know which whispers to heed. None are as tantalizing as the ones about the Nightbirds. At the start of Matilde's third season as a Nightbird, she is sure of her gilded world and her place within it. What she isn't sure of are her new Nightbird sisters: Sayer, the girl from the wrong side of the canals with a score she will do anything to settle, and Æsa, afraid of everything and herself. They are not friends, but their gifts make them all cherished, well-guarded treasures. Nothing can touch them. Or so they think, until their first clients of the Season attack them. One is an assassin, sent by a mysterious cult who sees them as a dangerous evil. Another is a spy sent by the queen, who wants to kidnap them to achieve her own ends. With Simta's most powerful out to catch or kill them, suddenly their secrets no longer seem safe.
Forced to run into the city's shadows, they discover an illicit underground where magic is flourishing. They also find out they aren't the only girls with magic, and that much of what they've been taught is a lie designed to keep them from coming into their true powers. In this new world, they discover that their gifts are more powerful than they knew and bigger than anyone imagined. As they are drawn ever deeper into a tug-of-war for power, the Nightbirds face dire choices: lean into their magic or suppress it? Use it to remake their city or pursue their own aims? No matter what they do, the shadows won't hide them forever. They will have to decide what they are willing to fight for and be brave enough to step into the light. And then
Kate is originally from Washington, DC, and now lives in Melbourne, Australia, with her husband. A former high school English teacher with a degree in journalism, she's been a nonfiction book editor for more than 10 years with National Geographic and others, and is the founder of the The Exploress, a nonfiction podcast about women in history that has more than 200,000 downloads.
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