so much invention peeking around every corner - Patrick Ness The rich, inventive worldbuilding and nuanced intrigues will have fantasy readers on the edges of their seats * Publishers Weekly * Ilmar is vividly alive with ideas, conflicts, and a sense of its own history - a truly breathtaking fantasy city, down every street a compelling story - David Towsey A master at the height of his powers. an absolutely fascinating study in human behaviour * SF Crowsnest * An intriguing tangle, dense, dark, ingenious, ironic, complex, often funny, and always smart * Locus * Endlessly creative. making a location the main character is a considerable challenge and it's testament to Tchaikovsky's skill that he can make it work * SFX * When things start to unravel, brilliant chaos ensues * Daily Mail * Has some of Tchaikovsky's best prose.
This is epic symphonic fantasy, weaving a breakneck plot through a sumptuously dangerous world.' Ian Green 'A wonderful twisty stew of a book with a cast of fascinating characters, set against the brilliantly realized city of Ilmar.' Django Wexler 'A triumph of a book: wildly imaginative, immediately immersive and hypnotically compelling.' Sharon Emmerichs Read moreįinesse and clarity of detail in the world building is the rock on which Tchaikovsky has built the City of Last Chances.the beauty of the story is in the slow and gentle unfolding of how the unrelated combine * SciFi Now * Paints a vivid detailed backdrop and populates it with colourful personalities and elaborate religious, political and economic systems. 'Ilmar is vividly alive with ideas, conflicts, and a sense of its own history - a truly breathtaking fantasy city, down every street a compelling story.' David Towsey 'A master at the height of his powers. Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places. What will be the spark that lights the conflagration? Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood - that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. tive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inven. so much invention peeking around every corner' Patrick Ness Arthur C.
WINNER OF THE 2022 BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR BEST NOVEL 'Endlessly creative.
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