Andrea has created a brilliant fantasy world here with griot-storytellers, wild dogs, pirate queens, floating cities, protective bees, warhorses, hungry elephants, and angry rivers.

There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find.ĭjola, righthand man and spymaster of the lord of the Arkhysian Empire, is desperately trying to save his adopted homeland, even in exile.Īwa, a young woman training to be a powerful griot, tests the limits of her knowledge and comes into her own in a world of sorcery, floating cities, kindly beasts, and uncertain men.Īwash in the rhythms of folklore and storytelling and rich with Hairston's characteristic lush prose, Master of Poisons is epic fantasy that will bleed your mind with its turns of phrase and leave you aching for the world it burns into being.Ī Macmillan Audio production from Tor. Master of Poisons is one of those books that will sink its vines into your nerves and you will willingly, happily, feverishly go down in its embrace. This is medicine for a broken world.

tags: believe, comradeship, faith, kinship, magic. Her other books include Will Do Magic For Small Change (finalist for the. ' Believe in me.' 'Thats the most a person can do for another,' Aidan said. Andrea Hairston is the author of Master of Poisons (out September 8, 2020). The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. This is a prayer hymn, a battle cry, a love song, a legendary call and response bonfire talisman tale. What did she know bout him and Miz Garnett 'Please.' She sounded like a young gal and a grown woman too. Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons

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