The Scroll of Years
A Gaunt and Bone Novel
Pyr · Print & ebook · September 24, 2013
It's Brent Weeks meets China Mieville in this wildly imaginative fantasy debut featuring high action, elegant writing, and sword and sorcery with a Chinese flare.
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- Who it’s for
- Come for high-action sword and sorcery; stay for elegant prose and an adventurous, offbeat pairing.
- Genres
- Epic Fantasy, Dragons & Mythic Creatures, Fantasy Adventure
- Published
- Pyr, September 24, 2013
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It's Brent Weeks meets China Mieville in this wildly imaginative fantasy debut featuring high action, elegant writing, and sword and sorcery with a Chinese flare. Persimmon Gaunt and Imago Bone are a romantic couple and partners in crime. Persimmon is a poet from a well-to-do family, who found herself looking for adventure, while Imago is a thief in his ninth decade who is double-cursed, and his body has not aged in nearly seventy years.
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Together, their services and wanderlust have taken them into places better left unseen, and against odds best not spoken about. Now, they find themselves looking to get away, to the edge of the world, with Persimmon pregnant with their child, and the most feared duo of assassins hot on their trail. However, all is never what it seems, and a sordid adventure--complete with magic scrolls, gangs of thieves, and dragons both eastern and western--is at hand.
Swordplay & Sorcery
Come for high-action sword and sorcery; stay for elegant prose and an adventurous, offbeat pairing.
Come here for
- A poet-and-thief partnership with romantic sparks and a taste for danger
- Magic scrolls, thief gangs, and dragons of both eastern and western stripes
Expect
- Wanderlust, peril, and a trail of assassins
- A blend of romance, magic, and mythic creatures
Where it sits
| Fantasy Adventure | 70% |
|---|---|
| Dragons & Mythic Creatures | 66% |
| Epic Fantasy | 44% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Epic Fantasy
- Dragons & Mythic Creatures
- Authors
- Chris Willrich
- Publisher
- Pyr
- Published
- September 24, 2013
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure