Blacktail

A dark fantasy epic of revenge from the author of The Library at Mount Char

De: Scott Hawkins

A twisting and apocalyptic dark fantasy novel, Blacktail is the long-awaited second novel from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char.

Who does your dog pray to?

Blacktail, a half-breed wolf, knows only the language of the hunt. When men kill his mate and unborn pups, he answers with a slaughter that is absolute. In his violence, Blacktail draws the gaze of an ancient and terrible feline witch. She sets him on a path south – to wake the sleeping Forest God and end the plague of humankind.

As Blacktail journeys farther from his wild home and deeper into the world of man, he encounters strangers – animal, mortal, and otherworldly – who want to help him rid the world of humans. From the blood-slicked wilderness to a burning confrontation with Archangels, this is a feral odyssey of vengeance – brutal, heartbreaking and unlike anything else in fiction.

The Forest God sleeps. But what will be the price of waking him?

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Praise for Scott Hawkins:

‘Utterly resistant to categorization’ – V. E. Schwab, author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil

‘Sprawling, epic . . . Unputdownable’ – Cory Doctorow, author of Walkaway

‘Funny, horrifying and original’ – Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End

‘Extravagant, beautifully imagined’ – Booklist

Reseñas de la Crítica

Wholly original . . . the work of the newest major talent in fantasy (The Wall Street Journal on The Library at Mount Char)

A wholly original, engrossing, disturbing, and beautiful book (Kirkus (starred review) on The Library at Mount Char)

An extravagant, beautifully imagined fantasy about a universe that is both familiar and unfamiliar . . . Hawkins makes nary a misstep in this award-worthy effort of imagination. You won’t be able to put it down. (Booklist (starred review) on The Library at Mount Char)

A bizarre yet utterly compelling debut (Library Journal (starred review) on The Library at Mount Char)

Ambitious and perplexing debut that sits somewhere on the border of thriller and speculative fiction, morbid and action-packed and existential and utterly resistant to categorization. (V.E. Schwab, author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue and Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil, on The Library at Mount Char)