Books like Book of iron by Elizabeth Bear
Book of Iron, a stand‑alone prequel to Elizabeth Bear’s novella Bone and Jewel Creatures, follows Bijou the Artificer, a wizard from Messaline, the City of Jackals. She teams up with her rival necromancer Kaulas and the martial Prince Salih, who together form the Bey’s elite band of trouble‑solving adventurers. As Messaline rests upon the ruins of an older City of Jackals, a foreign wizard pair and a bard from the western isles cross the desert chasing a sorcerer intent on looting the deadly artifacts of the lost city of Erem. The trio must join forces to stop him, wading through strange passages beneath alien suns, for failure would mean the destruction of every land.
First publish date: 2013
Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy
Authors: Elizabeth Bear
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