#she is busy being mysteriously awol) given my authorial hallmark of having implausible oodles of women and one token dude in everything else

[aldieb]

the way that my job has totally sucked away my ability to actually write any of this due to constant intellectual exhaustion but on the flip side has developed my skill of creating fire promotional copy for a nonexistent novel in like 3 minutes flat

Change is coming to the Six Cities. After hundreds of years locked in high-tech feudalism backed by the reality-bending powers of the quasi-military Visionaries, the ruling Crown families are threatened by a growing underground rebellion. After the unexplained disappearance of his fiancée, Crown heir Gideon Drace is sent to live under the protection of one of the most volatile, notorious Visionary divisions. Among the Ninth Division, ex-Crown Cail Maireth is on the edge of a research breakthrough that could destabilize everything known about the dreaming—adepts’ gateway into an alternate dimension that shapes to their will. And rank-and-file nobodies Nishiane Arai and Syras Neale swerve off-course in their semi-sanctioned investigation of a rebellion cell, drawn by strange gaps in the history of Nishiane’s deceased mother, a Visionary before her. Beneath it all, a living city sleeps with one eye open.

#text tag #winterbreaker #bizarre to have the ratio of 3 men : 2 women (arcie just gets to be fiancée bc this is already buckling under the weight of names and mostly #she is busy being mysteriously awol) given my authorial hallmark of having implausible oodles of women and one token dude in everything else #also like that this implies that anyone told cail to do this. no he assigned himself homework like a weirdo and now he’s discovering #the higgs boson (analogy based on vibes; not really) #would u pick this off the shelf at your local bookstore n then write an angry review abt bury your gays when blorbos get slaughtered 300 #pages in