The Queen of Days
A Novel
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- 9,99 €
Beschreibung des Verlags
From Greta Kelly, the author of the Warrior Witch duology, comes The Queen of Days, an epic adventure that weaves together a flawed-but-lovable family of thieves, a battle between fallen gods, and stakes high enough to cause vertigo—perfect for fans of The Lies of Locke Lamora and Six of Crows.
For Balthazar and his family of thieves, stealing a statue during the annual celebration of the god Karanis was just a good bit of fun…or a way to stick it to the governor who murdered his parents. And yeah, the small fortune in reward doesn’t hurt—even if his boss also hired the mysterious Queen of Days to join the crew as “the weapon of last resort...”
Whatever that means.
But Bal doesn’t know the ceremony isn’t simply empty words and dusty tradition; it’s true magic. The kind of magic that rips open a portal for the god himself. Only the idol that Karanis planned on using for a body now lies broken at the Queen of Days’ feet. And half of it is missing.
With the aid of a lovable brawler, a society lady turned bomb maker, a disgraced soldier, and a time-eating demon, Bal must hunt down the missing half of the statue if he has any hope of earning his money, keeping his crew alive…and perhaps even saving all of humanity. But as his journey sends him racing through the city—and across realities—he discovers that doing all this might just doom the city.
The city be damned. It’s time to kill a god.
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Kelly (The Seventh Queen) invites readers along on a high-stakes heist in a secondary world populated by gods, demigods, and plenty of wily rogues. A mysterious patron hires the Talion crew, headed by Balthazar "Bal" Vadalen, for their biggest score yet: stealing the idol of the god Karanis from his newly restored temple in the middle of the temple's consecration ceremony, but before the consecration is complete. Though Bal is sure that he and his scrappy crew can handle the job on their own, their patron insists they work with the legendary thief known as the Queen of Days. As payment, the Queen of Days demands a month off the end of the lives of each member of the crew. Bal agrees, thinking she couldn't possibly collect this fanciful price. But she does, which is just the start of everything that could go wrong with the heist going wrong—until the Talion crew find that if they want to survive the war between gods that they've accidentally stumbled into, they'll need to rely on the Queen of Days just as much as they do on each other. In Kelly's hands, this band of rogues becomes a lovable found family. Fans of The Lies of Locke Lamora will find much to enjoy.
