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Biographical note
Cassandra Clare is the author of the No. 1 New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles. She is also the co-author of the bestselling fantasy series Magisterium with Holly Black. The Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted as both a major motion picture and a television series. Her books have more than fifty million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three fearsome cats.<b><i>Sword Catcher </i>gave me everything I look for in medieval fantasy:</b> mystery and magic (not too much, not too little), expert worldbuilding, swordplay and politics, a colorful cast of interesting characters, and a story that kept me reading from the first page to the last, with enough twists and turns to keep me turning the pages. It's a big thick book, but it left me wanting more. <b>When's the next one coming out?</b>
- No. 1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author George R. R. Martin,
<b>A gorgeously built world of decadence, betrayal, and grand adventure.</b> From the decadent and drunken parties of the nobles, to the dens of crime lords in the Warren and Maze, to the Sault, where the devotees of a lost goddess are penned, the city of Castellane makes the perfect backdrop for a delightful cast of characters to befriend, betray, and romance one another. <b>This is Cassandra Clare at her cleverest, twistiest and most heart-stopping—a triumph of a book</b>
- Holly Black, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Book of Night</i>,
Clare plunges us into <b>a thrilling world built with precision and brimming with enchantment.</b> Her spellbinding cast of outlaws, healers, royals, and rogues will have you questioning your allegiances with every delicious turn of the plot. <b>This is fantasy at its finest</b>
- Leigh Bardugo, No. 1 <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Hell Bent</i>,
<b>A sumptuous feast of a book, vivid and delicious and heady.</b> Cassandra Clare’s trademark skills are on full display here: <b>epic worlds, wrenching romances, heart-slamming plot twists, Dickensian characters.</b> I can’t wait to visit Castellane again
- Kelly Link, bestselling author of <i>White Cat, Black Dog</i>,
<b>Sweeping yet intimate, rich with romance and intrigue, <i>Sword Catcher</i> is Cassandra Clare at her magical best.</b> In pages packed with sumptuous descriptions, Clare gives us a kingdom’s worth of characters—including Kel the ‘sword catcher,’ trained to protect his prince at all costs, and Lin, a young physician of an outcast people—forced to navigate a web of tangled loyalties between the loved ones they cherish and the powers they serve. <b>This book will break your heart and leave you wanting more!</b>
- Helene Wecker, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Golem and the Jinni</i>,
<b>A charming return to the big fat fantasy novels of happy memory,</b> with a modern character-driven narrative. <b>Vivid and clever</b>
- Scott Lynch, bestselling author of the Gentleman Bastard sequence,
It's <b>heady stuff</b>, a novel with <b>all the drama and yearning </b>of Clare's Shadowhunter stories but set in a whole new world, and with the YA stabilisers taken off . . . <b>readers risk becoming instantly addicted</b>
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<b>Cassandra Clare is a legend in fantasy </b>. . . be warned you will be obsessed . . . <b>a propulsive, layered, phenomenally imagined</b> start to what promises to be <b>an epic journey</b>
- <i>Glamour Magazine</i>,
Completely <b>spellbinding</b> . . . will keep you strapped to your seat and hooked to every single word
- <i>Debut Digest</i>,