Synopsis
‘Outstanding’ – Daily Mail
‘Glorious’ – V. E. Schwab
‘Blacktail will consume you’ – Marcus Kliewer
A dark, brutal work of fantasy and animal revenge from Scott Hawkins, the critically acclaimed author of The Library at Mount Char.
Blacktail is a half-breed wolf, born to hunt. When he finds love beyond a garden wall, he dares to imagine a peaceful life – until men butcher his mate and unborn pups in a surgical act of cruelty.
His grief ignites a rampage of torn throats and shattered bone. Soon, Blacktail’s violence draws the gaze of an ancient feline witch. She sends him south to wake the sleeping Forest God and end the age of reason.
As Blacktail journeys farther from his wild home and deeper into the world of man, he encounters strangers – animal, mortal, and otherworldly – who want to rid the world of humans.
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‘Unexpected, blood-soaked and vividly told’
– qntm, author of There is No Antimemetics Division
‘Touching, horrifying’
– Mark Lawrence, bestselling author of The Book That Wouldn't Burn
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“Reader, be warned. This is not a gentle book, and those who cannot bear to see an animal hurt should guard their hearts. But persist, and you will be rewarded. Blacktail is as glorious as it is gruesome”V. E. Schwab, Sunday Times bestselling author of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil and The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
“Wickedly sharp, unflinchingly brutal, and nothing short of a modern masterpiece. Blacktail will consume you”Marcus Kliewer, bestselling author of We Used to Live Here and The Caretaker
“Mesmerizing and strange, like the headiest of folklore. Blacktail is one to savour; one to delight in the eccentricities of; one to sit with long after it ends”Olivie Blake, Sunday Times bestselling author of Girl Dinner and The Atlas Six
“A mad, feral fable – this is beautiful, brutal fantasy, red in tooth and claw. Funny, heartbreaking, violent. All hail Blacktail. Down with the two-legs”Chuck Wendig, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Staircase in the Woods and The Book of Accidents
