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 Gideon the Ninth meets Black Sun in this genre-bending queer fantasy debut inspired by Maori culture, Asian folklore, and sci-fi noir—where murder, resurrection, and rebellion collide on the high seas.

In the port city of Hainak, everything is alive—its buildings, its weapons, its fashion—thrumming with the pulse of a biotech revolution after a devastating war. All Yat Jyn-Hok wants is peace. Once a thief, now a night-patrolling cop, she’s just trying to stay afloat after a career demotion for “lifestyle choices” and the lingering grief of a vanished lover.

That fragile balance shatters when Yat stumbles on a corpse during her patrol—and is murdered by her own fellow officers to keep it quiet. Dumped into the harbor, she should be gone for good. But an ancient, mysterious power resurrects her, granting her the ability to manipulate life force itself.

Hunted by the police force she once served, Yat finds refuge with a ragtag pirate crew as an insidious plague begins to spread through Hainak. To save the city—and herself—she must confront the corruption at its core and master her new powers before the darkness consuming Hainak swallows them all.

Perfect for fans of The Poppy War, The Dawnhounds is a lush, multicultural fantasy that blends queer romance, gritty mystery, and high-octane adventure. Fantastique Fantastique épique Fiction Littérature mondiale Science-fiction et fantasy Épique Amérindien

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"New Zealander Anna Coddington’s rich accent enhances this surreal and unforgettable Maaori-inspired fantasy. Yat Jyn-Hok is an exhausted cop and a former street kid who was recently demoted after being caught in a gay bar. Coddington’s melodious voice conveys Yat’s conflicted love and hope for her struggling port city of Hainak, and her anger at its many injustices."
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The Dawnhounds is weird. Set in post-apocalyptic secondary world and a biopunk city full of fungal houses where soldiers are armed with guns that shoot "grubs" that eat the bodies they hit and cops are armed with rapidly growing vines and many folk have strange body modifications, like cuttlefish skin or eyes that are bee hives.

The Dawnhounds does not hold your hand. It does not explain itself. The world is rich and complicated, the affairs of its gods are mysterious, the knotted tangle of another world's history shapes the story but greatly exceeds the narrative of the first book's bounds. Much of what happens is set up for future books in Endsong. Re-reading The Dawnhounds after reading The Sunforge allowed me to better put together the pieces of what is happening in the world and with the gods.

The Dawnhounds is unapologetically queer from beginning to end. It is also unapologetically political. Don't let the cop protagonist fool you, this book is not copaganda. This is a story of queer rebellion and queer love and the necessity of these things in resistance against the state, the police, the military, and the rising tide of fascism.

Stronach's brilliant imagination makes her a fantasy author to pay attention to. Do yourself a favour. Read this book. Read the next one, which is even better. The Endsong series has all the makings of a groundbreaking work of imaginative fantasy; dark, political, and deeply, foundationally queer.

Groundbreaking, rebellious biopunk epic

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