The Gutter Prayer by Gareth Hanrahan
Crime , Fantasy , Gareth Hanrahan , Orbit / January 5, 2019

A group of three young thieves are pulled into a centuries old magical war between ancient beings, mages, and humanity in this wildly original debut epic fantasy. The city has always been. The city must finally end. When three thieves – an orphan, a ghoul, and a cursed man – are betrayed by the master of the thieves guild, their quest for revenge uncovers dark truths about their city and exposes a dangerous conspiracy, the seeds of which were sown long before they were born. Cari is a drifter whose past and future are darker than she can know. Rat is a Ghoul, whose people haunt the city’s underworld. Spar is a Stone Man, subject to a terrible disease that is slowly petrifying his flesh. Chance has brought them together, but their friendship could be all that stands in the way of total armageddon. Happy New Year! I hope the cosy lull after the festive season finds you well rested and ready to kick 2019 off with some more top-notch genre fiction. We’ll begin the year with some fantasy action. Isn’t it always the way, you and your friends are hired to do a simple bit of breaking and entering,…