Winterglass (Her Pitiless Command Book 1)

Winterglass (Her Pitiless Command Book 1)

Winterglass is a sci-fantasy about one woman’s love for her homeland (Sirapirat) and her determination to defeat the Winter Queen who has overtaken the land.<br /><br />The city-state Sirapirat once knew only warmth and monsoon. When the Winter Queen conquered it, she remade the land in her image, turning Sirapirat into a country of snow and unending frost. But an empire is not her only goal. In secret, she seeks the fragments of a mirror whose power will grant her deepest desire.<br /><br />At her right hand is General Lussadh, who bears a mirror shard in her heart, as loyal to winter as she is plagued by her past as a traitor to her country. Tasked with locating other glass-bearers, she finds one in Nuawa, an insurgent who’s forged herself into a weapon that will strike down the queen.<br /><br />To earn her place in the queen’s army, Nuawa must enter a deadly tournament where the losers’ souls are given in service to winter. To free Sirapirat, she is prepared to make sacrifices: those she loves, herself, and the complicated bond slowly forming between her and Lussadh.<br /><br />If the splinter of glass in Nuawa's heart doesn't destroy her first.<br /><br />"A fairy tale, beautiful like an ice crystal, and razor sharp."<br />--
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, World Fantasy Award-winning co-editor of She Walks in Shadows
<br /><br />"Winterglass is rich with diamondine prose, a scintillant retelling of the Ice Queen that challenges Occidental aesthetics, colonial mentality, and personal identity."
<br />--Cassandra Khaw, author of Hammers on Bone, BFA & Locus Award nominee
<br /><br />"An exquisite gem of a novella. Politics, relationships, and combat presented as a matryoshka, the beauty of which is there's no easy way of telling which shells are within which. Sriduangkaew’s sensuous metaphors and elegant imagery are never less than a pleasure to read. Thoroughly recommended. "<br />--Jonathan L. Howard, author of Johannes Cabal the Necromancer