Gods of Jade and Shadow

The Jazz Age is in full swing, but Casiopea Tun is too decorated cleaning the floors of her wealthy granddad's firm to heed to whatever fast tunes. Nevertheless, she dreams of a life far from her dusty, small-scale town in southern Mexico. A life she tin can call her own. Notwithstanding this new life seems equally distant as the stars, until the 24-hour interval she finds a curious wooden box in her grandfather'southward room. She opens it–and accidentally frees the spirit of the Mayan God of Death, who requests her help in recovering his throne from his treacherous brother. Failure will mean Casiopea's demise, but success could make her dreams come true. In the visitor of the strangely attracting god and armed with her wits, Casiopea begins an adventure that will accept her on a cross-country odyssey, from the jungles of Yucatán to the bright lights of Mexico Metropolis–and deep into the darkness of the Mayan underworld.

Publisher: Del Rey
Publication Twelvemonth: 2019
Illustrator: Encompass art Daniel Pelavin
ASIN: 0525620753
ISBN: 9780525620754

Published in the United states by Del Rey and past Quercus in the Uk.

Simultaneously heartbreaking and centre-mending, Gods of Jade and Shadow is a wondrous and magical tale about choosing our ain path. I felt weepy and happy and hopeful when I finished – everything you want to experience at the finish of a smashing story.

—Kevin Hearne, New York Times-bestselling writer of the Iron Druid Chronicles

An evocative and moving fairy-tale virtually a downtrodden girl and the Mayan God of Death and how they both find each other and their humanity together . . . Loved it. Highly recommend.

—Rebecca Roanhorse, author of Trail of Lightning

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's prose is like the best kind of fairytale – dark, enchanting, and makes yous wish that y'all could live inside its pages. Casiopea'southward journey belongs on every bookshelf

—Zoraida Córdova, award-winning author of Labyrinth Lost

Prepare in a lushly rendered and gorgeous world, this is historical fantasy at its best: a fresh, feminist coming-of-age tale that lets the ancient and the new meld and disharmonism in a tale you can't put down

—S.A. Chakraborty, author of The City of Brass and The Kingdom of Copper

A lush, bittersweet tale of backbone, love and carving your own place in the world…Silvia Moreno-Garcia's evocative prose will take you on an adventure for the mind and the heart.

—Christina Henry, writer of the bestselling Black Wings series

A vibrant story of grit, giddiness, and glory with a protagonist whose personality burns bright every bit a star. Casiopea Tun volition capture your heart and draw yous into a jewel-toned earth of myth-making and jazz music.

— Lara Elena Donnelly, author of the Amberlough Dossier

Moreno-Garcia crafts a magical novel of duality, tradition, and change, ready in the late 1920s as Mexico transitions from its post-Revolution period to the Jazz Historic period… Readers volition gladly immerse themselves in Moreno-Garcia'due south rich and circuitous tale of desperate hopes and complicated relationships.

—Publishers Weekly

Snappy dialog, stellar worldbuilding, lyrical prose, and a irksome-burn romance brand this a standout.

—Library Journal

While the stakes are loftier for all of the characters, the volume strikes a potent balance between the epic scope of the adventure at hand, and the rich internal lives of the characters.

—Tor.com

Moreno-Garcia'southward volume is a dispatch from a universe where indigenous American legends have always been role of the lexicon of fantasy. That universe gets closer to being ours every day, and we are amend for information technology.

—Kirkus

Readers will be floored past Moreno-Garcia'due south painstaking attention to detail, especially in her unforgettable descriptions of the emotionally charged interactions between realistic human being characters and otherworldly gods, witches and demonic forces, every bit well as the fairy-tale and folktale aspects of the plot.

—BookPage

Silvia Moreno-Garcia writes with verve and the Mayan mythology she draws on is fascinating.

—The Times

Colourful, romantic and moving,Gods of Jade and Shadowis a sensational novel from beginning to end. Movie studios, if you're on the hunt for the next great fantasy blockbuster to option, you need look no farther.

—CultureFly

Moreno-Garcia's 2015 releaseSignal to Noise had readers hearing the music that sits at the heart of the main character also equally the story. Merely in this new novel, the author pivots on what sense she targets. She focuses not on our ears just our mind's eye as she brings this earth to life with color.

—Open Letters Review

I've never wanted to sink into the pages of a book and reappear into the book'south setting so badly. Every line was crafted with the utmost care to create a vivid rendering of the Mexican Jazz Historic period and Mayan mythology.

—Smart Bitches Trashy Books

This is a hopeful and bittersweet tale, with a whip-smart, practical protagonist, and will appeal to fans of S.A. Chakraborty, Naomi Novik, and Katherine Arden.

—The Skinny