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  • Published: 2 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780857668035
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99

Broken Shadow

Shadowlands Book II




The sky is falling, and only one dilettante scientist can save the world, in the startling finale of the Shadowlands duology.

The sky is falling, and only one dilettante scientist can save the world, in the startling finale of the Shadowlands duology

Rhia Harlyn risks death for science. Accused of heresy for promoting an unorthodox cosmology, she must defend herself, her work and her House alone. If only she could rely on her feckless brother Etyan, transformed through the combination of an occult scientist’s experiments and the harsh rays of the skyland sun. But she knows she cannot. 

When Dej, Etyan’s half-alien lover, finally uncovers Etyan’s dark secret she runs off into the perilous skyland. She is looking for peace in a world that has rejected her; what she discovers instead will change everyone’s lives.  

Meanwhile, overhead, the very stars themselves are shifting. Rhia is about to find herself proved disastrously right... 

File Under: Fantasy [ Unnatural Science | Making Contact | Lost Secrets | Out of Darkness ]

  • Published: 2 April 2019
  • ISBN: 9780857668035
  • Imprint: Angry Robot
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $32.99

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"Fenn is at her best when describing the lives of strong women up against it, and excels at fast action thrillers."
- The Guardian

"A vivid and unusual world, populated by an interesting array of characters"
- The Times

"Jaine Fenn opens a window on a fascinating and vivid science fictional world... It's an energetic space opera, an interesting and entertaining entry in an old genre."
- Strange Horizons

"Fenn manages to put her own stamp on some familiar genre elements, enough to make this a genuinely promising debut"
- Locus

"Both plotting and characterisation are handled deftly, while Fenn's world-building of exotic locales is equally impressive... you should read Jaine Fenn - she's bloody ace."
- SFX Magazine