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THE WITCH'S COMPENDIUM OF MONSTERS. Book 1: Foul Days
A new adult fantasy duology with crossover appeal by Bulgarian writer Genoveva Dimova, inspired by Slavik folklore and described as The Witcher if it was written by Naomi Novik.
As a witch in the walled city of Chernograd, Kosara has plenty of practice taming rusalkas, fighting kikimoras, and brewing lycanthrope repellent. There's only one monster Kosara can't defeat: her ex. He's the Zmey, the Tsar of Monsters. She's defied him one too many times, and now he's hunting her. To escape his wrath, Kosara's only hope is to trade her powers for illegal passage across the Wall to Belograd, where monsters can't follow.
Life in Belograd should be sweet, but without her magic Kosara quickly develops the shadow sickness that kills powerless witches. She's traded a fast death at the hands of the Zmey for a slow one of turning into shadow. If she wants to live to enjoy her freedom from the Zmey, Kosara needs to get her powers back. And to do that, she'll have to team up with the suspiciously honorable detective investigating the death of the smuggler who brought her across the Wall.
Even worse than working with the cops is that all the clues are pointing in a single direction: one of the Zmey's monsters has found a crack in the Wall, and Kosara's magic is now in the Zmey's hands.
Genoveva Dimova grew up in Bulgaria and currently lives in Scotland, where she works as an archaeologist. Her first novel A Tale of Wizards, Physicists and a Dragon was published in her native Bulgaria (as Genoveva Detelinova) by MBG Books, where it was voted the Best Debut Spec-Fic of 2013 and won an encouragement award at the European Science Fiction Society Awards. Her novelette The Dragon and the Orange Juice was published by Aliterate and her short fiction has appeared in ?????stika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction and Saving the World: The Best of Bulgarian SFF, among others. Foul Days is her second novel, and was selected for the Author Mentor Match program. When she's not writing, she likes to explore old ruins, climb even older hills, and listen to practically ancient rock music.
Life in Belograd should be sweet, but without her magic Kosara quickly develops the shadow sickness that kills powerless witches. She's traded a fast death at the hands of the Zmey for a slow one of turning into shadow. If she wants to live to enjoy her freedom from the Zmey, Kosara needs to get her powers back. And to do that, she'll have to team up with the suspiciously honorable detective investigating the death of the smuggler who brought her across the Wall.
Even worse than working with the cops is that all the clues are pointing in a single direction: one of the Zmey's monsters has found a crack in the Wall, and Kosara's magic is now in the Zmey's hands.
Genoveva Dimova grew up in Bulgaria and currently lives in Scotland, where she works as an archaeologist. Her first novel A Tale of Wizards, Physicists and a Dragon was published in her native Bulgaria (as Genoveva Detelinova) by MBG Books, where it was voted the Best Debut Spec-Fic of 2013 and won an encouragement award at the European Science Fiction Society Awards. Her novelette The Dragon and the Orange Juice was published by Aliterate and her short fiction has appeared in ?????stika: Almanac of Bulgarian Speculative Fiction and Saving the World: The Best of Bulgarian SFF, among others. Foul Days is her second novel, and was selected for the Author Mentor Match program. When she's not writing, she likes to explore old ruins, climb even older hills, and listen to practically ancient rock music.
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