Magic for Liars

Praise for Magic for Liars ""A queerer, older, quicker-paced Harry Potter, concerned with the childhood grudges that adults can't get over.""--Refinery 29 ""We can't wait to see what Sarah Gailey does next!""--Crimereads, the most anticipated crime books of summer ""With winks to multiple genres, Sarah Gailey's Magic for Liars shows that their talent has no trouble extending to a full-length novel.""--Culturess ""In a very short time, Sarah Gailey has distinguished themself as one of science fiction's best new writers."" --BoingBoing ""The world has little mercy; but it does have heart, and like Ivy, it carries on despite its scars.""--NPR ""Magic for Liars is a perfect, spare, delectable novel that features a masterful narrative structure, terribly human characters occupying realistically magical settings, and more. The prose is spot-on and paints an intimate, flawed portrait of how a world like Gamble's would function, from the moment she tells the disbelieving bartender magic exists to the moment she walks out on her sister. I can't recommend it highly enough."" --Tor.com ""There's something for almost all readers here... Gailey shows us that humans are humans, even when they are magic, and they are still flawed, damaged, and oh-so-interesting"" --Booklist (starred review) ""Clever and fast-paced... a wonderfully quirky mystery filled with inviting characters and gripping surprise twists."" --Publishers Weekly ""A poignant and bittersweet family tragedy disguised as a mystery but with a magic all its own."" --Kirkus ""Veronica Mars with a bit of Harry Potter"" --The Nerd Daily ""Sarah Gailey mashes hard-bitten detective noir into the magical YA world of Harry Potter in Magic For Liars... a Syfy series waiting to happen."" --AV Club ""The sharpest female protagonist of the summer""--The Mary Sue ""Ivy Gamble may not be magic herself, but she casts a spell all the same--and so does Gailey"" --Barnes and Noble