—New York Times Book Review
“Thanks to a rip-roaring story and Drayden’s expansive imagination, it all coheres into the most fun you can have in 2017.”
—Book Riot (Best Books of 2017)
“One of the biggest pleasures of this book is the plurality of its voices and story lines, and the way Nicky Drayden skips and weaves between them. . . . It’s a book full of energy and momentum, strange wit and sensitivity. It is a LOT. And it is wonderful.”
—Vulture (The 10 Best Fantasy Books of 2017)
Praise for Temper
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2018 and a Vulture Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Book of 2018
“Drayden (The Prey of Gods) crafts a tangled, fantastical African society as the setting for her spellbinding sophomore novel. . . . Drayden takes speculative fiction in an exciting direction with a harrowing and impressive tale of twisted prophecy, identity, and cataclysmic change.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[Drayden] excels at making every twist and turn of the plot meaningful to the story. Moreover, the world-building is deliciously lush and complex.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Drayden is an amazing writer and deft plotter. The twists are unexpected and never feel contrived, just as the novel explores real-world issues without sounding preachy.”
—Library Journal
Also by Nicky Drayden
Escaping Exodus
The Prey of Gods
Temper
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