Skybreaker

In the heart of Elizabethan England

and Mick Mars is an open book in The Dirt

viewed through the lens of a modern peer

The result is a terrific and important book

a gentle African-American astronomer

In her titular piece “The Wrong Way To Save Your Life

posts and memes don’t announce their relative veracity

she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabad—and quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive the political intrigue there

one last time

“A dreamily written

generals and other officers

The terrifying truth of her captivity is held by alternate personalities she doesn't know exist