Holly Black is the Real Thing: a gifted writer with a solid grounding in what matters. Her stories are dark and splendid blooms rising from roots sunk deep in myth and tradition.

Utterly ingenious! Tiffany Trent has more fine invention at her fingertips than a roomful of magical Leonardos!

Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?

He said, 'They're only whores,' as though their very availability rendered them worthless.

Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.

Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.

Honest change? Honest? Has someone altered the definition of the word while my back was turned, or have you recently developed a sense of humor?