If you’ve been following T Kingfisher for a while, you might have already read other books set in The World of the White Rat, like Swordheart or Clockwork Boys.

Gods don’t die! They’re not supposed to die! They’re gods!!!īut that is how Paladin’s Grace opens: with Stephen, a paladin of the Saint of Steel, going about a perfectly normal day, when suddenly he – and his fellow paladins – feel their god die. I have never thought about how horrific it would be to live in such a world…a world where your god does not require your blind faith because they are real and there and present…and then have your god die. The ways in which they’re present are different in every story, and they differ in how much they can affect human beings or the natural world…but it’s a trope I’m very fond of, okay?

Where it’s not a question of faith and belief, because the gods are there. I have always loved fantasies where the gods are indisputably real. ~a pet civet (think a weasel but EVEN CUTER) Now the pair must navigate a web of treachery, beset on all sides by spies and poisoners, while a cryptic killer stalks one step behind…įrom the Hugo and Nebula Award winning author of Swordheart and The Twisted Ones comes a saga of murder, magic, and love on the far side of despair.

But all that changes when he encounters a fugitive named Grace in an alley and witnesses an assassination attempt gone wrong. Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only for the chance to be useful before he dies. Stephen’s god died on the longest day of the year… Representation: Minor nonbinary characters

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