Congratulations to tour winner Diane M and to host winner The Faerie Review.
M.Laszlo will be awarding a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn winner during the tour, and a $20 Amazon/BN gift card to a randomly drawn host.
In a mythical, late-nineteenth-century city in Bohemia, Waltraud hears a voice no one else can hear.
It belongs to Rübezahl — a winged old man imprisoned for decades, a penitent monster who once abducted her as a child and now calls to her for release. When Waltraud refuses to help him escape, her defiance unleashes tragedy, and the creature is freed by other means.
Rübezahl’s revenge is subtle and devastating. A ghost rain begins to fall, flooding the city with hallucinations, stupefaction, and false hopes. As the population drifts into confusion and chaos, class war erupts and the authorities prove helpless.
Immune to the rain’s spell, Waltraud becomes the city’s last clear mind. Armed with a dangerous prototype weapon and hunted as much by public opinion as by monsters, she must confront Rübezahl — not only in the streets of the drowning city, but in the mountains where myth, media, and violence collide.
A dark, philosophical fantasy about power, belief, and the cost of independent thought.
April 22: Gina Rae Mitchell
April 29: The Avid Reader
May 6: Guatemala Paula Loves to Read
May 13: Long and Short Reviews
May 20: Straight from the Library
May 27: Country Mamas With Kids
