Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer

Creatures of Want and Ruin is a fun read and an easy page-turner, but it also grapples with hard and heavy stuff: the heartbreak of growing apart from people you once loved, and finding them strangers the destructive forces unleashed by bigotry and hate and the sacrifices we might be called upon to make in order to save our world. Oh-and a demon who is hell-bent on wreaking havoc.

This Prohibition-era romp is rich with archery and moonshiâ‰ the bonds between siblings the love between female friends and the stark, chilly beauty of Long Island's loneliest places. Timely, riveting, and weird in all the right ways, this book is full on diabolical! -Bryan Camp, author of The City of Lost Fortunes With Creatures of Want and Ruin, Molly Tanzer has created a deliciously dark and satisfying follow-up to Creatures of Will and Temper. Though the demons threatening Prohibition-era Long Island are alien and capricious, the more horrifying evils here are the perils of xenophobia and bigotry. Tim Pratt, award-winning author of The Wrong Stars and Heirs of Grace Molly Tanzer's Creatures of Want and Ruin is a novel brimming with desire. A wonderfully engaging read! -Jeffrey Ford, award-winning author of A Natural History of Hell and Ahab's Return Creatures of Will and Temper was my favorite fantasy of 2017, and sequel Creatures of Want and Ruin is even better-a perfect Prohibition-Era cocktail of bootleggers, demons, and high society that will leave you shaken and stirred. The story telling takes over and you just want more of Ellie West and the denizens of her world, the dead-on 1920s Long Island historical setting, the Great South Bay, the apocalyptic religious cult, the strangeness, until the end and there's no more story to go. Great fun! -Max Gladstone, Hugo Award-nominated author of The Craft Sequence The writing in Molly Tanzer's Creatures of Want and Ruin is so smooth you don't notice it past the first word.

Creatures of Want and Ruin is a riveting two-fisted weird pulp adventure with demons, smuggling, sex, archery, cults, and crime that doesn't shrink from carving its predecessors open to poke around in their guts. Once again Molly Tanzer demonstrates a bootlegger's knack for transforming glorious pulpy material into human spirit.

Creatures of Want and Ruin by Molly Tanzer