Oh internets, why do you fail me?

Posted on | 3 years, 3 months ago, just before lunchtime | No Comments

Ever since yesterday afternoon, our home internet access has been altogether sucktastic — and this is the first time I’ve been able to log in in what feels like ages [:: taps at vein in arm ::]. Even so, the service is hiccuppy and I don’t know how long I’ll have to regale you with my wonderful news, so here it goes, quick and dirty: My upcoming novel Fathom has scored a starred review in Publishers Weekly.

Yes yes! My very first starred review! My squee overfloweth!
Here, the text of the review goes as follows:

[:: starred ::] Fathom
Cherie Priest. Tor, $25.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1840-4

A decidedly dark departure from Priest’s Eden Moore saga (Four and Twenty Blackbirds, etc.), this stand-alone novel is equal parts horror, contemporary fantasy and apocalyptic thriller. During a summer vacation to her aunt’s coastal Florida home, innocent teen Nia sees her cousin Bernice commit a brutal murder and then get dragged into the ocean by a monstrous water witch. Nia becomes inadvertently entangled in a conflict between primordial creatures that endangers the very existence of humankind. Entombed in stone for countless years, Nia eventually emerges from her cocoon transformed, only to realize that an old god is close to awakening and destroying the world. Priest’s haunting lyricism and graceful narrative are complemented by the solemn, cynical thematic undercurrents with a tangible gravity and depth. This is arguably her most ambitious—and accomplished—work to date. (Dec.)

DANCE WITH ME, MY READERS!*
[:: shakes it ::]
[:: shakes it ::]


* And please please please please (since it definitely doesn’t suck) consider preordering it to make me look good, so that my publishers will ask me to write more books — and I can continue to feed Spain the Cat’s kibble addiction.

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