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Listen up, fantasy readers! I am declaring today MARADAINE MONDAY, because a lot of y'all are sleeping on this amazing series by @marshallmaresca, and I mean to rectify that! 1/
Listen up, fantasy readers! I am declaring today MARADAINE MONDAY, because a lot of y'all are sleeping on this amazing series by @marshallmaresca, and I mean to rectify that! 1/
Do you love a richly-designed world? When you open a book, do you want to feel like you could actually go visit the invented locations in it?
MARADAINE.
This city is so thoroughly rendered that it's almost hard to believe it doesn't exist. 2/
MARADAINE.
This city is so thoroughly rendered that it's almost hard to believe it doesn't exist. 2/
Do you like diverse casts of characters? Do you like to see a wide variety of skills and personality types brought together towards a common goal?
MARADAINE.
He's got a city's worth of characters, and they all feel real. 3/
MARADAINE.
He's got a city's worth of characters, and they all feel real. 3/
There are four sub-series, and each one has a slightly different flavor. You've got magical college-kid Batman; you've got conspiracy exposing peacekeepers with crossbows; you've got heists; you've got the last remnants of a noble knightly tradition.
MARADAINE. 4/
MARADAINE. 4/
And oh did I mention there are TWELVE BOOKS.
Yeah. 12. All but the last are out there, published, ready for you to consume, and the 12th comes out next month.
MARADAINE.
Start now, read two a week, be ready for the 12th when it comes. 5/
Yeah. 12. All but the last are out there, published, ready for you to consume, and the 12th comes out next month.
MARADAINE.
Start now, read two a week, be ready for the 12th when it comes. 5/
(Look I'm not gonna point fingers but in the time you've been waiting for Certain Big Name Authors With Established Franchises to finish *one* book, Marshall Ryan Maresca has published twelve. TWELVE.) 6/
Here's what I really freaking love, though, is that these books feel like Ankh-Morkpork grimed up but still with the basic messages of hope and camaraderie and protecting the home you love even when it's a screwed up place. 7/
(Something I feel like a lot of us can sympathize with right about now??)
When I say Ankh-Morkpork, I don't mean Pratchett's absurdist style; the Maradaine Saga has the tone of urban fantasy, just... the urbs is invented. 8/
When I say Ankh-Morkpork, I don't mean Pratchett's absurdist style; the Maradaine Saga has the tone of urban fantasy, just... the urbs is invented. 8/
But it has that same feeling of: This city is enormous. This city has a lot of different districts. It has a sketchy police force and it has wizard university and it has governmental oddities and it has rich toffs and it has slums. This city is kind of a mess.
But we love it. 9/
But we love it. 9/
Plus if you love maps?? omg. Let me tell you.
MARADAINE.
I feel like if you dropped me in there right now, I could find my way around. The maps connect THAT thoroughly to the storytelling. 10/
MARADAINE.
I feel like if you dropped me in there right now, I could find my way around. The maps connect THAT thoroughly to the storytelling. 10/
I had the great good fortune to read the 12th book, PEOPLE OF THE CITY, early (heck yeah @NetGalley), and Marshall Ryan Maresca has achieved something truly masterful here. I'm not exaggerating. 11/
Tying together disparate threads of a multi-POV story is a challenge even in a single novel. To pull together the threads of four series, spanning twelve novels, is an absolutely magnificent feat. 12/
Start the Maradaine saga now, for you will be taken on an AMAZING ride with so many characters that you will get super attached to. I want to hang out with these heroes. (Even though that seems like a dangerous prospect, considering what they get up to.) 13/
The point in the middle of PEOPLE OF THE CITY where you see all these different paths starting to move towards each other into a big o' knot -- it's thrilling. I was bouncing in my seat reading it. 14/
And through these wonderful, complex characters, we get to examine so many questions of right and wrong, justice and mercy, the reins of power and how people fight to control them.
It's gorgeous storytelling AND a story For Our Times. 15/
It's gorgeous storytelling AND a story For Our Times. 15/
(I meant to say this earlier, but for real, if NIGHT WATCH is your favorite Discworld novel? I don't know HOW you have not read these books yet!) 16/
So I'm gonna drop these covers one more time, with a link to where you can find more information about them, see suggested reading orders for the intertwined series, and decide which of your favorite booksellers you're going to support by purchasing them.
http://mrmaresca.com/wp/novels/
http://mrmaresca.com/wp/novels/
Or you can go straight here for the purchasing part, because you know you want to.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/240304/marshall-ryan-maresca
MARADAINE.
18/18
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/240304/marshall-ryan-maresca
MARADAINE.
18/18
