Books like Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher

Name: Clockwork Boys
Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Author: T. Kingfisher

In T. Kingfisher’s debut, a paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar leave town to take on an espionage mission with high stakes. They must recover the secret behind the Clockwork Boys—mechanical soldiers from a neighboring realm that threaten the Dowager’s city. Success promises great rewards and pardons, but the route to the enemy capital is fraught with danger and the requirement that they not kill one another along the way. Turning darkly comic and gently touching, the story follows this broken group as they navigate treachery and personal bonds on a desperate, suicide mission.

First publish date: 2017

Genre: Fantasy/Epic Fantasy

Authors: T. Kingfisher

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