Meredith Mooring
SFF writer, employment lawyer, blind/albinism, guide dog user. REDSIGHT out now
- 💨❄️🐕 THE DARK SEASON In the wake of her father’s violent death, Cerrida must take up his mantle as a blind Warden of their remote mountain valley to protect the villagers from the Dark Season, a soul-eating shadow which is fast approaching. Without the training she should’ve received, Cerrida
- must learn to master his immortal guide dog, Tamar, who she’s inherited along with his title, as well as Speech—a powerful ability to control life with a spoken word—which has diminished after centuries of sheltering beneath the surface.
- To make matters worse, a competition between the Wardens’ apprentices is fast approaching, and with no apprentice of her own, Cerrida must find someone worthy of competing—and of working alongside. Until she meets Evy, a sighted shepherdess brave enough to kill a wolf infected with shadow-sickness,
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View full threadcombined with the soul magic and body jumping of WITCH KING by Martha Wells and the ecology, animal behavior, and biological mutation of BORNE by Jeff Vandermeer. It will appeal to fans of Seth Dickinson, Kerstin Hall, A.K. Larkwood, and Tamsyn Muir. Art by Mary Metzger 💙
