thoroughly engaging.'- Booklist 'McGuire sets a high bar for alchemy-based stories in this new stand-alone, twisting themes of time and space as seen through the eyes of children. '- Culturess 'n ambitious piece of world building from a master of the craft. If you've got a love for fantasy, you should read Middlegame. another delightful and captivating outing from Seanan McGuire.'- bookreporter 'This is a fascinating novel by an author of consummate skill.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review ' deserves to be re-read because it's just that good. '- NPR 'Satisfying on all levels of the reading experience: thrilling, emotionally resonant, and cerebral.'- Kirkus, starred review 'Imaginatively conceived, carefully constructed, fantastically written. It's the kind of book where you want to reach into the page just to help them out, to warn them of what's coming. And this is the greatest trick McGuire pulls here. They're its pulse and purpose - these two supernaturally gifted kids who come off like kids. This singular work keeps readers thinking long after the final page.'- Library Journal, 'Roger and Dodger are the heart of this story.

'Satisfying on all levels of the reading experience: thrilling, emotionally resonant, and cerebral.'- Kirkus, starred review 'This is a fascinating novel by an author of consummate skill.'- Publishers Weekly, starred review 'n ambitious piece of world building from a master of the craft. A USA Today Bestseller, and named as one of Paste Magazine 's 30 Best Fantasy Novels of the Decade! But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story.

Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. A HUGO AWARD FINALIST! WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD FOR BEST FANTASY NOVEL, 2020! A Pick on the 2020 RUSA Reading List! New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces readers to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame.

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