Lilia is a young girl who crossed over into Raisa as a child, from the world whose invading armies - a militarist version of the pacifist Dhai race native to Raisa - are now spilling over. We follow no fewer than five viewpoint characters whose lives are swept up in the tumult. But no one from the invading universe can actually enter Raisa while their counterpart still lives, and a team of assassins has been sent over to deal with certain key figures, in order to smooth the way for the invasion to proceed.
An invasion by their own, alternate-universe counterparts. As Oma is ascending once again, Raisa faces an invasion like none ever seen before. But the ascendance of a dominant “dark star” in its heavens, Oma, signals a time of cataclysm, when the thin skein between parallel realities can be breached, and invading forces from other worlds create wrack and ruin. The world of Raisa is orbited by three satellites, from which trained magic users draw their power. But there the similarities end, as Hurley forcefully flips every genre trope in her sights to create a work simply exploding with a kind of anarchic, creative ferocity. It tells of a world wracked by war, political upheaval, slave rebellion, ethnic cleansing and genocide. It is, on the one hand, very much cut from the currently fashionable cloth of the grimdark fantasy tapestry. Tweets by Hurley, one of the lucky writers to land on her feet following the implosion of Night Shade Books in 2013, returns with an electrifying and career-defining fourth novel in The Mirror Empire. Book cover artwork is copyrighted by its respective artist and/or publisher. All reviews and site design © by Thomas M.
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