We're thrilled to reveal the (gorgeous!) cover for cassieclare's epic adult fantasy debut SwordCatcher, and LacyMB chats with the author herself about what to expect from this exciting new series.
The past few years have seen quite a few big-name young adult authors make the leap into adult fiction: Holly Black, Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J. Maas, Kiersten White, and Shannon Chakraborty, to name just a handful. And now another of YA fantasy’s biggest names—Cassandra Clare—is finally set to release her first adult title, and readers everywhere are rightfully excited to see where her stories go next.
After a failed assassination attempt brings Lin and Kel together, they are drawn into the web of the mysterious Ragpicker King, the criminal ruler of Castellane’s underworld. He offers them each what they want most; but as they descend into his world of intrigue and shadow, they discover a conspiracy of corruption that reaches from the darkest gutters of Castellane to the highest tower of its palaces.
Two of those people are our main characters. First we have Kellian Saren, the Sword Catcher. He is the body double for Prince Conor, heir to the throne of Castellane—though he’s starting to realize there are some dangers he can’t protect Conor from. And then we have Lin Caster, a doctor and member of the Ashkar, a religion whose members are forced to live in a walled ghetto in Castellane. Despite her skills, Lin can’t heal her best friend, Mariam, who is slowly dying.
The big difference to me is that in YA, your characters are working on problems of identity: What kind of person am I? What are my values? What does it mean to love someone new? But the characters inare in their early twenties, and they’re facing a different question: What does it mean to take on the responsibilities of adulthood? For the first time, it matters that Conor is the prince because being the prince is his—there’s pressure on him to marry, to make substantial decisions about the fate...
So what will they love most? Well, I think they’ll love Kel and Lin, and Conor, and the Ragpicker King, and all the other folks waiting to be met who I don’t have space to mention here! But also, I think they’ll love Castellane. Cities have always been a huge part of the Shadowhunters universe, and big international cities at that—New York, London, Los Angeles. Castellane is huge and diverse in the same way, but with a totally different feel than any place my books have visited before.
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