
The Tainted Cup
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A Holmes and Watson–style detective duo take the stage in this fantasy with a mystery twist, from the Edgar-winning, multiple Hugo-nominated Robert Jackson Bennett
“Great fantasy detective stories are too rare, but Bennett—[a] rising star of fantasy—more than delivers.”—Charlie Jane Anders, The Washington Post
“A thoroughly satisfying delight from start to finish.”—Amal El-Mohtar, The New York Times Book Review
LOCUS AWARD FINALIST • EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, Elle, BookPage
In Daretana’s greatest mansion, a high imperial officer lies dead—killed, to all appearances, when a tree erupted from his body. Even here at the Empire’s borders, where contagions abound and the blood of the leviathans works strange magical changes, it’s a death both terrifying and impossible.
Assigned to investigate is Ana Dolabra, a detective whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities. Rumor has it that she wears a blindfold at all times, and that she can solve impossible cases without even stepping outside the walls of her home.
At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol, magically altered in ways that make him the perfect aide to Ana’s brilliance. Din is at turns scandalized, perplexed, and utterly infuriated by his new superior—but as the case unfolds and he watches Ana’s mind leap from one startling deduction to the next, he must admit that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.
As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.
By an “endlessly inventive” (Vulture) author with a “wicked sense of humor” (NPR), The Tainted Cup mixes the charms of detective fiction with brilliant world-building to deliver a fiendishly clever mystery that’s at once instantly recognizable and thrillingly new.
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Reseñas de la Crítica
“I loved this. A twisty detective story, a weird fantasy, a thrilling adventure—The Tainted Cup is a masterstroke. I want Bennett to write a dozen of these, and send them to me yesterday.”—Max Gladstone, New York Times bestselling co-author of This Is How You Lose the Time War
“The Tainted Cup is a true fantasy mystery, with a leading duo who stand with Holmes and Watson among the greats. And Bennett sets it all in a squishy, fascinating, biopunk world I’m dying to find out more about. Bring on the next one!”—Django Wexler, author of the Shadow Campaigns series
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The Catenan Republic—the Hierarchy—may rule the world now, but they do not know everything. I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilized society in allowing my strength, my drive, and my focus—what they call Will—to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.
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I don’t know what the other reviews are on about
- De Chase en 06-24-23
De: James Islington
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Rough Trade
- A Novel
- De: Katrina Carrasco
- Narrado por: Stacy Gonzalez
- Duración: 14 h y 13 m
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Washington Territory, 1888. With contacts on the docks and in the railroad, and with a buyers' market funneling product their way, Alma Rosales and her opium-smuggling crew are making a fortune. They spend their days moving product and their nights at the Monte Carlo, the center of Tacoma's queer scene, where skirts and trousers don't signify and everyone's free to suit themselves.
De: Katrina Carrasco
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Among Thieves
- De: M. J. Kuhn
- Narrado por: Zoe Mills
- Duración: 10 h
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In just over a year’s time, Ryia Cautella has already earned herself a reputation as the quickest, deadliest blade in the dockside city of Carrowwick - not to mention the sharpest tongue. But Ryia Cautella is not her real name. For the past six years, a deadly secret has kept her in hiding, running from town to town, doing whatever it takes to stay one step ahead of the formidable Guildmaster - the sovereign ruler of the five kingdoms of Thamorr. No matter how far or fast she travels, his servants never fail to track her down...but even the most powerful men can be defeated.
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Back alleys & backstabbing = bollicking good times
- De 🔥 Phx17 🔥 en 07-17-22
De: M. J. Kuhn
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Her Majesty's Royal Coven
- A Novel
- De: Juno Dawson
- Narrado por: Aoife McMahon
- Duración: 13 h y 56 m
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At the dawn of their adolescence, on the eve of the summer solstice, four young girls—Helena, Leonie, Niamh and Elle—took the oath to join Her Majesty's Royal Coven, established by Queen Elizabeth I as a covert government department. Now, decades later, the witch community is still reeling from a civil war and Helena is the reigning High Priestess of the organization. Yet Helena is the only one of her friend group still enmeshed in the stale bureaucracy of HMRC.
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This is the Queer Fantasy you've been looking for
- De Anonymous User en 04-12-23
De: Juno Dawson
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Savage Legion
- Savage Rebellion
- De: Matt Wallace
- Narrado por: Lameece Issaq
- Duración: 15 h y 20 m
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They call them Savages. Brutal. Efficient. Expendable. The empire relies on them. The Savages are the greatest weapon they ever developed. Culled from the streets of their cities, they take the ones no one will miss and throw them, by the thousands, at the empire’s enemies. Evie is not a Savage. She’s a warrior with a mission: to find the man she once loved, the man who holds the key to exposing the secret of the Savage Legion and ending the mass conscription of the empire’s poor and wretched. But to find him, she must become one of them....
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It could have been good, but wasn't
- De M. Wightman en 09-20-21
De: Matt Wallace
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A Sorceress Comes to Call
- De: T. Kingfisher
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss, Jennifer Pickens
- Duración: 11 h y 8 m
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Cordelia knows her mother is . . . unusual. Their house doesn’t have any doors between rooms—there are no secrets in this house—and her mother doesn't allow Cordelia to have a single friend. Unless you count Falada, her mother's beautiful white horse. The only time Cordelia feels truly free is on her daily rides with him. But more than simple eccentricity sets her mother apart. Other mothers don’t force their daughters to be silent and motionless for hours, sometimes days, on end. Other mothers aren’t sorcerers.
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Brilliantly creepy
- De Joella Berkner en 08-14-24
De: T. Kingfisher
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The Company Man
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Richard Poe
- Duración: 16 h y 4 m
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A trolley car pulls into the station. Four minutes before, the inhabitants were seen boarding at the previous station. All are dead. And all of them are union. The year is 1919. The McNaughton Corporation is the pinnacle of American industry. They built airships that cross the seas. Guns that won the Great War. And above all, the city of Evesden. But something is rotten at the heart of Evesden. Caught between the union and the company, between the police and the victims, Hayes must find the truth behind the city before it kills him.
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Steampunk Noir - Puts the Punk Back in Steampunk
- De Dave en 12-05-12
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American Elsewhere
- De: Robert Jackson Bennett
- Narrado por: Graham Winton
- Duración: 22 h y 24 m
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Some places are too good to be true. Under a pink moon, there is a perfect little town not found on any map. In that town, there are quiet streets lined with pretty houses, houses that conceal the strangest things. After a couple years of hard traveling, ex-cop Mona Bright inherits her long-dead mother's home in Wink, New Mexico. And the closer Mona gets to her mother's past, the more she understands that the people of Wink are very, very different....
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You are entering the twighlight zone
- De Lisa en 07-29-13
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A Deadly Education
- A Novel (The Scholomance, Book 1)
- De: Naomi Novik
- Narrado por: Anisha Dadia
- Duración: 10 h y 59 m
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I decided that Orion Lake needed to die after the second time he saved my life. Everyone loves Orion Lake. Everyone else, that is. Far as I’m concerned, he can keep his flashy combat magic to himself. I’m not joining his pack of adoring fans. I don’t need help surviving the Scholomance, even if they do. Forget the hordes of monsters and cursed artifacts; I’m probably the most dangerous thing in the place. Just give me a chance and I’ll level mountains and kill untold millions, making myself the dark queen of the world.
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Intersting concept, way too much self pity
- De Rune en 10-13-20
De: Naomi Novik
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Service Model
- De: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Narrado por: Adrian Tchaikovsky
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor and service. When a domesticated robot gets a nasty little idea downloaded into its core programming, they murder their owner. The robot discovers they can also do something else they never did before: They can run away. Fleeing the household they enter a wider world they never knew existed, where the age-old hierarchy of humans at the top is disintegrating into ruins and an entire robot ecosystem devoted to human wellbeing is having to find a new purpose.
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Another banger from Tchaikovsky
- De J. C. Amos en 06-09-24
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Someone You Can Build a Nest In
- De: John Wiswell
- Narrado por: Carmen Rose
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who happily resides as an amorphous lump at the bottom of a ruined manor. When her rest is interrupted by hunters intent on murdering her, she constructs a body using a metal chain for a backbone, borrowed bones for limbs, and a bear trap as an extra mouth. However, the hunters chase Shesheshen out of her home and off a cliff. Badly hurt, she's found and nursed back to health by Homily, a warmhearted human, who has mistaken Shesheshen as a fellow human
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Weird, but good
- De Kris Rudin en 12-08-24
De: John Wiswell
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Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
- Book One of the Emily Wilde Series
- De: Heather Fawcett
- Narrado por: Ell Potter, Michael Dodds
- Duración: 12 h y 5 m
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Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party—or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, Shadow, and the Fair Folk to other people. So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk.
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Enjoyable Fantasy Read
- De Jordan Brubaker en 07-03-23
De: Heather Fawcett
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The Shadow of What Was Lost
- Licanius, Book 1
- De: James Islington
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 25 h y 28 m
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It has been 20 years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs, once thought of almost as gods, were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets.
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Atrocious. Almost abusive.
- De Captain Spanky Of Nazareth en 06-10-20
De: James Islington
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Unholy Land
- De: Lavie Tidhar
- Narrado por: Andrew Fallaize
- Duración: 7 h y 57 m
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When pulp-fiction writer Lior Tirosh returns to his homeland in East Africa, much has changed. Palestina - a Jewish state established in the early 20th century - is constructing a massive border wall to keep out African refugees. Unrest in the capital, Ararat, is at fever pitch. While searching for his missing niece, Tirosh begins to act as though he is a detective from one of his own novels. He is pursued by ruthless members of the state's security apparatus while unearthing deadly conspiracies and impossible realities.
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Which reality is real?
- De Michael G Kurilla en 10-17-20
De: Lavie Tidhar
A great mystery and story
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Very fun fantasy mystery
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This was my first book by Robert Jackson Bennett but it will not be my last. Also, kudos to Andrew Fallaize as narrator.
I did not want this book to end.
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Fantastic blending of unique fantasy world with a detective novel
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My goodness. From sea walls shaking to insane items in nature, this book is equal parts intriguing and fun.
If you haven’t read RJB yet, don’t sleep on them for too long. (Both Foundryside & The Divine Cities, both completed series, were solid 4 ⭐️ IMHO).
If you have read RJB- is it just me, or does this feel like his strongest book 1 yet?
Incredible voice work by Andrew Fallaize – impressive range for an extremely full cast of characters. TBH, his performance makes it an easy 5 ⭐️.
I’d like this book to shoot to the top of your 🎧TBR like dappleglass.
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Outstanding narrator
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A delightful mystery in a stunningly detailed new world
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Beautifully crafted mystery
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Captivating Storytelling
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The lead, a man with a past, was looking for truth in a world that seemed to hide it well. His quest felt difficult, but he did not yield. The prose was sharp, each word well placed. To borrow a metaphor from the book, the tale flowed like a mountain stream, smooth and clear.
The world in The Tainted Cup is vast and deep. Each place felt real, with its own past and mood. The streets were dark, full of life and risk. The best part about the lush and verdant world building was that it was delivered not through big boring infodumps but in small nuggets that were woven into the story. I consumed these joyful little pieces of world building candy with the story being told, unaware that slowly but surely RJB was constructing a rich and luscious stage of a wold on which this mystery was playing.
Bennett had painted each scene with care. Even the air felt thick with dread, yet there was room for hope to peek through. The lands were green and rich with lore, each fern and blade of grass with a tale to tell. The varied folk who walk these lands are shaped by them, tied to its soil, its flora and fauna.
The world was not just a stage, but a key part of the tale. It shapes the plot, molds the folks, and drives the quest. It is a world that pulled me in, made me feel each step and breath.
In short, the world of The Tainted Cup is one that I did not want to leave. It will stay with me, not one I will soon forget.
4.5🌟🌟🌟🌟💫 stars!
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