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Calor

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*** WINNER: Realm Award: Book of the Year 2023 ***

What if you could edit memories with a single touch?

The world-that-was is gone, lost to everything except living memory . . . but remembering comes at a terrible price. Sixty-two years after the apocalypse, a new society has emerged from the ashes of the old world where highly valued memories are traded and nostalgia is worth dying—and even killing—for.

Enslaved by a cruel master, Sephone Winter is forced to use her rare ability to manipulate memories to numb the darkest secrets of the ruling aristocracy.

Then Lord Adamo appears, speaking of a powerful relic capable of permanently erasing memories and recovering Sephone's own lost childhood. But not everything about the young lord is as it seems, and soon Sephone must choose between helping Lord Adamo forget his past or journeying deep into the land of Lethe, where the truth about who she really is might finally be revealed . . . and a long desired future restored.

The Nightingale Trilogy is a fantasy transformation of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved 1843 tale The Nightingale, with echoes of the myths of Hades and Persephone.

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    • Publisher's Weekly

      October 10, 2022
      In this mixed-bag fantasy, Fischer (The Sword in His Hand) enhances her formulaic reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Nightingale” with a fascinating magic system and a captivating dystopian backdrop. Sephone Winter’s ability to manipulate memories makes her the most powerful mem in Caldera, but she’s also a slave. While Sephone’s ability to enter others’ minds has shown her much of the world beyond her home in the disputed territory of Nulla—including some cherished memories of the world before apocalyptic disaster—she longs to see it all firsthand. But when kind and handsome Lord Adamo offers Sephone a chance to escape in exchange for her help searching for an artifact with the power to completely erase his memories of his murdered wife and child, she refuses—until a kidnapping attempt changes her mind. Elements of “The Nightingale” come to the fore as Sephone and Adamo search for the artifact, face down dangers, and fall in love. Unfortunately, this emotional development is rendered particularly stiffly, hitting expected notes with no sense of surprise or spontaneity, and Sephone’s initial refusal of the call to adventure feels contrived, played out only because of Fischer’s determination to follow the standard beats of the hero’s journey. The exciting worldbuilding may be enough to draw readers in, but they should expect bumps along the way.

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