An Unkindness of Magicians is a sequel to Kat Howards Alex Award–winning novel, exploring the lengths Sydney will go to regain her magic after losing it. The House of Shadows, a hell on earth that shaped her, is rebuilding itself, and Sydney is determined to stop it. She is forced to decide what she will give up and what she will lose, and whether the cost of happiness is too much to bear.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 18 July 2024
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Return to Kat Howards Alex Award-winning world begun in An Unkindness of Magicians as Sydney struggles with the reality of losing her powers—and the lengths shell go to get her magic back.

After taking down the source of corruption of the Unseen World, Sydney is left with almost no magical ability. Feeling estranged from herself, she is determined to find a way back to her status as one of the world's most dangerous magicians. Unfortunately, she needs to do this quickly: the House of Shadows, the hell on earth that shaped her into who she was, the place she sacrificed everything to destroy, is rebuilding itself.

"The House of Shadows sits on Bones. All of the sacrifices, all of the magicians who died in Shadows, they're buried beneath the foundations. Bones hold magic."

The magic of the Unseen World is acting strangely, faltering, bleeding out from the edges. Determined to keep the House of Shadows from returning to power and to defeat the magicians who want nothing more than to have it back, Sydney turns to extremes in a desperate attempt to regain her sacrificed magic. She is forced to decide what she will give up and what she will lose and whether what must be destroyed is not on the House of Shadows, but the Unseen World itself.

World Fantasy Award finalist Kat Howard has written a sequel that asks how you have a happily ever after in a world that doesn't want it, where the cost of that happiness may be too much to bear.

Weight: 248g
Dimension: 213 x 142 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781534426825