'I don't care what else you've seen in the bookstore today Read this one'
- Kevin Hearne'I enjoyed the hell out of it'
- Patrick Rothfuss Nettie Lonesome lives in a land of hard people & hard ground dusted with sand She's a half-breed who dresses like a boy raised by folks who don't call her a slave but use her like one She knows of nothing else That is until the day a stranger attacks her When nothing not even a sickle to the eye can stop him Nettie stabs him through the heart with a chunk of wood & he turns to black sand & just like that Nettie can see But her newfound sight is a blessing & a curse Even if she doesn't understand what's under her own skin she can sense what everyone else is hiding
- at least physically The world is full of evil & now she knows the source of all the sand in the desert Haunted by the spirits Nettie has no choice but to set out on a quest that might lead her to find her true kin if the monsters along the way don't kill her first A rich dark fantasy of destiny death & the supernatural world hiding beneath the surface