In the end, one world will rise – and many will perish. Through tense alliances and devastating betrayal, the Dhai and their allies attempt to hold against a seemingly unstoppable force as enemy nations prepare for a coming together of worlds as old as the universe itself. As the dark star of the cataclysm rises, an illegitimate ruler is tasked with holding together a country fractured by civil war, a precocious young fighter is asked to betray his family and a half-Dhai general must choose between the eradication of her father’s people or loyalty to her alien Empress. In the frozen kingdom of Saiduan, invaders from another realm are decimating whole cities, leaving behind nothing but ash and ruin. On the eve of a recurring catastrophic event known to extinguish nations and reshape continents, a troubled orphan evades death and slavery to uncover her own bloody past… while a world goes to war with itself. So let’s get started with the publisher’s description: Those who haven’t read anything by Kameron Hurley or aren’t familiar with her work (of any kind) are in for something incredible when they dive into The Mirror Empire.
This should come as no surprise to people who have read her previous work (debut novel God’s War which received multiple genre nominations and the Kitschy for best newcomer) or her many opinion pieces around the genre web. Set in a milieu of parallel worlds featuring gender roles swapped or showcased in a different light, invading forces, blood magic, orphans, and bears-as-mounts, swords made of vegetation to name only a some features, few Epic Fantasy novels/stories truly embrace the notion of Epic Fantasy to the same degree as Hurley’s ambitious tome.
It has been a pretty good year for Epic Fantasy in 2014 and the upward trend continues with Kameron Hurley’s The Mirror Empire, her first novel for Angry Robot Books and the first installment of The Worldbreaker Saga.
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