#clocktaur war

[msunitedstatesjames]

So, unlike some more enlightened people in the world, I just discovered T. Kingfisher/Ursula Vernon in 2021, and I can't believe how much I was missing.

I've read, I think, seven of her books now, and every one has been so well done. How can this woman write fantasy, horror, humor, romance, steampunk, fairy tale retellings, classic literature retellings, books for adults, books for teens, books for children, and often three to five of the above genres at once, and all of them are so good?

I've seen some of her work classified as cozy, which is kind of funny when you read a few of her books (they're anything but low stakes), but she has such a way of infusing every story with so much warmth and humor and love that I can understand why people say her writing is cozy.

This woman really wrote a book about a sister on a quest for revenge against the prince that has been systemically abusing and murdering her sisters (while she shares the road with a witch, a demon, a bone dog, a dude who recently escaped faerie enslavement, and a failed fairy godmother), and the book was both heartwarming and hilarious while breaching really difficult topics.

And the best part of all of this is thar T. Kingfisher does all this, more often than not, in like 200ish pages.

But also, I just bought Swordheart and Paladin's Grace, and I'm really excited to see for the first time what she does with a book that's more than 300 pages.

#t. kingfisher #ursula vernon #nettle and bone #books #Clocktaur war #clockwork boys #The wonder engine #a house with good bones #what moves the dead #nettle & bone #A wizard's guide to defensive baking #thornhedge

[eagle-writes]

“Mules were worse. Mules were like horses who could *plan*” ~T. Kingfisher, Clockwork Boys

Ink: Akkerman Hofvijer Grijs

#calligraphy #quotation #calligraphy practice #clockwork boys #clocktaur war #t. kingfisher

[raccoonfink]

Last night I put up my new Adventure Synth album.

I got the BBC Symphony Orchestra VST from Spitfire Audio about a year ago and I almost immediately started writing this really epic cinematic thing and as soon as I had it sketched out I’m like “damn this sounds like a paladin song” and a switch flipped in my head: I should make a @tkingfisher themed Dungeon Synth album! That track became “Rediscovering Grace” which if you’ve read the paladin books, should make perfect sense to you. :)

I don’t think I’ve ever labored over a release as much as I did this one. I tweaked and re-tweaked and tweaked again until everything was just so. Listening over and over again in the car, on different headphones, taking notes and adjusting down to the level of, like, “flute down .5db” and such. It’s mostly been finished since the beginning of the year, with only Sarkis’s theme and the piano track at the end being done more recently.

I also, for the first time, commissioned artwork rather than bodging something together in photoshop. I couldn’t be more happy with Saga Mackenzie’s cover, it turned out so good.

Anyway, I hope you check it out. I’m really proud of this one and it feels great finally getting it out there.

Preorder is up now, and it goes live August 5th. It will go up on all the usual digital stores in the coming weeks as well.

#t kingfisher #saints of steel #swordheart #clocktaur #dungeon synth #adventure synth #clockwork boys #wonder engine #clocktaur war #fantasy soundtrack #rpg music #Bandcamp #dungeonsynth #renoise

[pieandpaperbacks]

Currently reading: Clockwork Boys by T Kingfisher

After a month spent reading the absolute masterpiece and mammoth that is Nicola Griffith’s Hild, I needed something short and sweet as something of a palette cleanser. So of course I picked up the only unread T Kingfisher book I own. I think ‘sweet’ might be something of a misnomer here, as there are sentient tattoos that will eat you, dancing rat corpses, and the main plot centres around a suicide mission. But it’s funny and the romance is silly and I’m having a good time dammit.

#bookblr #book recommendations #currently reading #t kingfisher #books #book review #clockwork boys #clocktaur war #The world of the white rat #ursula vernon

[dragonbadgerbooks]

[A]s Slate had begun to suspect long ago, the gods did not seem to be listening...

#clockwork boys #clocktaur war #the clockwork bous #the clocktaur war #t kingfisher #quotes #book quotes #ebook #ereader #kindle #book and coffee #booklr #book #books #book and drink #coffee

[whisperofthewaves]

I’m reading the Clocktaur War series and the moment the gnoles entered the picture I cannot imagine them in any other way than stinkier and shabby-clothed version of these moomin characters

#nothing important #clockwork boys #the wonder engine #also these books are so fun #clocktaur war

[maegalkarven]

I love Clocktaur War duology so freaking much

#clocktaur war #t. kingfisher #bookblogging #bookblr #avery.txt

[nevinslibrary]

Weird & Wonderful Wednesday

So, the Clockwork Boys are mechanical soldiers that are going to ruin Dowager’s city (they’re from a neighboring kingdom). So, a group of criminals (a paladin, a forger, an assasin) and a scholar are gathered to go on a (maybe suicide) mission to find the weaknesses of these soldiers. If they find what is needed, they’ll get pardoned, and rewarded. But, there’s one other big thing in their way, they have to get through this journey without killing each other either.

The world building is just amazing, and that is only surpassed by the characters, who all are super unique and different from one another. It’s a really fun mission based/journey based book, and, the news gets even better because there’s a sequel to it as well.

Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

#weirdandwonderfulwednesday #nmlRA #nevins memorial library #clockwork boys #t. kingfisher #clocktaur war

[reviewsthatburn]

Bleak and humorous, CLOCKWORK BOYS follows three convicted criminals and a scholar sent to find out what they can about the terrifying and murderous "Clockwork Boys" who have been devastating their towns and villages.

As a journey narrative, CLOCKWORK BOYS focuses on the dynamic between the members of the party, as well as the internal struggles of the two point-of-view characters. Slate is a forger, Brenner is an assassin, Caliban is a paladin who has a dead demon rotting in his skull, they're on this trip in hopes of a pardon if they survive. Learned Edmund is a formerly cloistered misogynist from an order who prizes learning and instills a fear of mere proximity to women. There's a mix of genuine character growth and learning each other's edges, the kind of forced intimacy which is fostered by a suicide mission with terrible travel conditions in the middle of a war. The worldbuilding is conveyed through a mix of exposition, character reactions, and things encountered as they travel. Slate and Caliban think about themselves and their companions, often thinking things they don't dare or don't know how to say out loud.

Full Review at link.

#BookReviews #Fantasy #Highly Recommended #clockwork boys #world of the white rat #clocktaur war

[discursivetacenda]

Listen, Libby. I'm just out here trying to read @tkingfisher Clocktaur War series (love LOVE the Saint of Steel books). Why is it that I'm now missing chapter 13 and 16 (at least) of The Wonder Engine? How can you just leave me to try to suss out what this mis-loaded chapters have in them? Is it gonna be like this for the next book too?

This is what I get for trying to read books and support my local library.

#clocktaur war #t kingfisher #libby overdrive #you misbehaving app #books & libraries #i'm complaining #i love my local library

[pastelrose-vivi]

If only I existed in an alternate universe where the wonder engine ended in a caliban/slate/brenner polycule like we deserve 😭

#I knew that something was going to happen with my boy but I didn’t think it was that 😭😭😭😭 #clocktaur war

[twofoursixohjuan]

"oh fuck" <- person who did not anticipate the ending of the wonder engine

#the clocktaur war #the wonder engine #t kingfisher

[goodgrammaritan]

Something small whacked him on the back of the skull and he winced.

"Sorry..." came from above them.

Caliban straightened, one hand going to his sword. People didn't usually yell apologies while they were trying to kill you. It made it difficult to know how to retaliate.

The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher

#t kingfisher #the wonder engine #book quotes #the clocktaur wars

[silverskye13]

Doodle dump! Because I've got a lot of stuff kicking around and I like some of these sketches.

Bottom one is one of my OC refs for Art Fight. Assuming I finish it XD Better late than never I guess.

#spazzcat doodles #theres like... a little bit of everything here #spazzcat ocs #mourn the paladin #caliban from the clocktaur wars #there's two whole helsknights in here #grillby fanart for a fic a friend made that i never finished because i'm shit #and a drawing of Tango getting tossed in the air by a ravager -- loved that perspective #anyway its 3am it'll be 4 before i get to sleep but i'm not tired #even though i was on the verge of passing out all day #i'm a disaster

[juniperharvest]

what are you reading Wednesday?

Audiobook: Dune - Frank Herbert

ebook (Libby on my phone): Clockwork Boys - T Kingfisher

ebook (Libby on my kindle): The Cider House Rules - John Irving

paperback: Birding While Indian - Thomas C Gannon

#What are you reading Wednesday #change of pace from small win Wednesday bc I want to know what people are reading #booklr #books and reading #Dune #t kingfisher #clocktaur wars #The cider house rules #birding while Indian

[firstofficerrose]

Currently reading the Clocktaur Wars, and I appreciate Slate so much. A forger, a thief, able to disguise herself, sneaky, the next best thing to invisible. She's got the mafia looking for her and a treason charge to deal with, and a cursed tattoo that's going to eat her if she fails her mission. She also cannot use a chair properly to save her life. I love her.

#and so does Caliban #clocktaur wars #t kingfisher #rose reads