Middlegame by Seanan McGuire5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() But he has a plan: to raise the twins to the highest power, to ascend with them and claim their authority as his own. Meet Reed, skilled in the alchemical arts like his progenitor before him. Roger and Dodger aren't exactly human, though they don't realise it. All she understands, she does so through the power of math. Numbers are her world, her obsession, her everything. He instinctively understands how the world works through the power of story. ![]() ![]() Skilled with words, languages come easily to him. New York Times bestselling and Alex, Nebula, and Hugo-Award-winning author Seanan McGuire introduces listeners to a world of amoral alchemy, shadowy organizations, and impossible cities in the standalone fantasy, Middlegame. "Amber Benson's compelling narration brings to life a world in which numbers and words are more than they seem, alchemy is real, and time is not a constant." - AudioFile Magazine Science Fiction & Fantasy - Available Now.It has that omniscient, mythical and somewhat detached quality to it. Armchair Explorers for Children and Teens The first thing that stood out to me AWoE is its narrative style - it almost feels like a kind of fairy tale, a fable told by firelight by an expert storyteller to a group of young children. ![]()
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