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Ruthless Gods: A Novel (Something Dark and Holy #2) (Hardcover)

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This is book number 2 in the Something Dark and Holy series.

Spring 2020 Kids Indie Next List


Wicked Saints was a tour de force, and Ruthless Gods takes up its mantle with no trace of second book syndrome or lagging energy. Emily Duncan’s carefully crafted sequel takes both familiar favorite characters and new faces from the Tranavian court to thrilling new locales — to mines and monasteries, into Kalyazi forests, and far away to the holy seat of the gods. This brilliant, brutal fever dream peopled with gods and eldritch things, limned with magic and horror, will leave readers breathless for the trilogy’s third installment.”
— Anna Bright, One More Page Books, Arlington, VA

Description


The stunning sequel to instant New York Times bestseller, Wicked Saints

Nadya doesn’t trust her magic anymore. Serefin is fighting off a voice in his head that doesn’t belong to him. Malachiasz is at war with who--and what--he’s become.

As their group is continually torn apart, the girl, the prince, and the monster find their fates irrevocably intertwined. Their paths are being orchestrated by someone…or something. The voices that Serefin hears in the darkness, the ones that Nadya believes are her gods, the ones that Malachiasz is desperate to meet—those voices want a stake in the world, and they refuse to stay quiet any longer.

In their dramatic follow-up to Wicked Saints, the first book in their Something Dark and Holy trilogy, Emily A. Duncan paints a Gothic, icy world where shadows whisper, and no one is who they seem, with a shocking ending that will leave you breathless.

This edition uses deckle edges; the uneven paper edge is intentional.

About the Author


EMILY A. DUNCAN is the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked Saints, Ruthless Gods, and Blessed Monsters. They work as a youth services librarian and received a Master’s degree in library science from Kent State University, which mostly taught them how to find obscure Slavic folklore texts through interlibrary loan systems. When not reading or writing, they enjoy playing copious amounts of video games and dungeons and dragons. They live in Ohio.

Praise For…


PRAISE FOR RUTHLESS GODS:

BOOKPAGE, "2020 preview: Most anticipated YA sequels and series titles"

BOOK RIOT, "The Ultimate Guide to Spring 2020 YA Books for Your TBR"

BOOKSTR, "Get Excited for These Spring Releases"

BUZZFEED, "30 LGBTQ YA Books You'll Absolutely Want To Pick Up This Spring"

EPIC READS, "39 YA Sequels You Won't Want to Miss in the First Half of 2020"

FROLIC, "Top 3 Y.A. Reads for the Week of April 7th"

GOODREADS, "The 38 Most Anticipated YA Novels of 2020"

HYPABLE, "15 Most Anticipated YA Fantasy Sequels of 2020"

io9, "Big List of New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books for April"

LGBTQ READS, "LGBTQAP YA 2020 Sequel Preview: January-June"

MEDIUM, "Most Anticipated Young Adult Sequel Novels of 2020"

NERDIST, "7 Queer Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Magic You Away"

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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, "New and Noteworthy Sequels: April 2020"

SHEREADS, "Most Anticipated YA Books of 2020"

SYFY.COM, "Six YA SFF Novels to Pick Up in April"

THE NERD DAILY, "The Most Anticipated 2020 Book Releases"

TOR.COM, "All the New Young Adult SFF Books Arriving in April"

"... if you liked Wicked Saints and you want more of everything, the sequel Ruthless Gods takes the monstrous romance to whole new... heights. Get ready." - BOOK RIOT

"Ruthless Gods is every bit the sequel that Emily A. Duncan's chilling Wicked Saints deserves - even darker, bloodier and even more complicated...A dark, brutal and deeply thrilling sequel that will leave you wanting more." - CULTURESS

"Magic and romance steeped in blood and betrayal. ...fans of the first volume will be pleased to have more of the same, with higher stakes and increasingly complicated questions of power and divinity." - KIRKUS

PRAISE FOR WICKED SAINTS:

**Indie Next Pick for the Spring 2019 Kids’ List**

SEVENTEEN, "The 35 Best Young Adult Books of 2019 So Far"

BOOKRIOT, “20 YA Dark Fantasy Books For Your Winter TBR”

BUZZFEED, "29 YA Books You Absolutely Must Read This Spring"

GOODREADS, “32 Big Books that YA Fans Can’t Wait for in 2019”

CULTRESS, “19 books we can’t wait to get our hands on in 2019”

EPIC READS, "The 16 Most Anticipated YA Books to Read in April"

SYFY, "6 April YA Novels That are Out of This World"

THE NERD DAILY, “2019 Book Releases”

"If you like your young adult fantasy full of ice, blood, and angst, Wicked Saints will sweep you up in its wintery embrace." - NPR, "3 Young Adult Novels To Help You Out Of Hibernation"



Product Details
ISBN: 9781250195692
ISBN-10: 1250195691
Publisher: Wednesday Books
Publication Date: April 7th, 2020
Pages: 544
Language: English
Series: Something Dark and Holy