{"product_id":"the-hexologists-9780316443302","title":"The Hexologists","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first book in a wildly inventive and mesmerizing new fantasy series from acclaimed author Josiah Bancroft where magical mysteries abound and only one team can solve them: The Hexologists. \"Bancroft is a magician.\" -- Madeline Miller, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fantastic! \u003ci\u003eThe Hexologists\u003c\/i\u003e fizzes eloquently with wit and elegance, but also has marvelous worldbuilding and an excellent plot - and a central pair of characters who I quite simply love. A cocktail of a book made with the very best champagne.\" -- Genevieve Cogman, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Library\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The Hexologists, Iz and Warren Wilby, are quite accustomed to helping desperate clients with the bugbears of city life. Aided by hexes and a bag of charmed relics, the Wilbies have recovered children abducted by chimney-wraiths, removed infestations of barb-nosed incubi, and ventured into the Gray Plains of the Unmade to soothe a troubled ghost. Well-acquainted with the weird, they never shy away from a challenging case. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But when they are approached by the royal secretary and told the king pleads to be baked into a cake--going so far as to wedge himself inside a lit oven--the Wilbies soon find themselves embroiled in a mystery that could very well see the nation turned on its head. Their effort to expose a royal secret buried under forty years of lies brings them nose to nose with a violent anti-royalist gang, avaricious ghouls, alchemists who draw their power from a hell-like dimension, and a bookish dragon who only occasionally eats people. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Armed with a love toughened by adversity and a stick of chalk that can conjure light from the darkness, hope from the hopeless, Iz and Warren Wilby are ready for whatever springs from the alleys, graves, and shadows next. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Josiah Bancroft's imagination will astound you. One of the most inventive fantasy authors out there.\" -- Fonda Lee, author of the Green Bone Saga \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Bancroft has returned to the page in force, deploying his crystal prose and razored wit around a tale that mixes whimsy and threat in equal measure. He's a gift to the genre\u003ci\u003e.\" \u003c\/i\u003e-- Mark Lawrence, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book That Wouldn't Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Orbit\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/26\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780316443302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/24\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023 pg. 69\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Josiah Bancroft","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43067610103989,"sku":"9780316443302","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9e8ee865-2f4a-4b10-8097-b6acc3c6017f.jpg?v=1690861351","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-hexologists-9780316443302","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}