Sandymancer, David Edison
Sandymancer, David Edison
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Sandymancer

Author: David Edison

Narrator: Rebecca Mitchell

Unabridged: 19 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/19/2023


Synopsis

A wild girl with sand magic in her bones and a mad god who is trying to fix the world he broke come together in Sandymancer, a genre-warping mashup of weird fantasy and hard science fiction.

All Caralee Vinnet has ever known is dust. Her whole world is made up of the stuff; water is the most precious thing in the cosmos. A privileged few control what elements remain. But the world was not always a dust bowl and the green is not all lost.

Caralee has a secret—she has magic in her bones and can draw up power from the sand beneath her feet to do her bidding. But when she does she winds up summoning a monster: the former god-king who broke the world 800 years ago and has stolen the body of her best friend.

Caralee will risk the whole world to take back what she's lost. If her new companion doesn't kill her first.

About David Edison

David Edison is the author of The Waking Engine and Sandymancer. Born in St. Louis, Missouri, he has spent most of his life living in New York City and California. His passions include rescuing pit bulls, leveling up, and all things queer.


Reviews

Goodreads review by fleshy

People live in a shitty scatty world they forgot how to turn on. The janitor is woken from his nap, and shenanigans ensue. An idiot plot on an idiot world. I read an ARC, and the description honestly sounded cool. (view spoiler)[ Caralee is an obnoxious ingénue, Sonnyvine is a predator, Eusebius/Saz/Joe aren’t real (hide spoiler)]......more

Goodreads review by James

I picked this book up not really expecting to like it that much. In reality, I really enjoyed it. The main character starts off quite annoying. She's a teenager, and doesn't act her age. She has an ego; she's better than the people around her and knows it. But that *works*. It works especially well......more

While it took me a bit to get used to the way Caralee spoke, and that she didn't really act like a 16-year-old... at least not like the type of 16-year-old I'm used to reading, once I did and when we reached the point where we meet Sunnyvine/ the Son I really began to enjoy the story. It's definitel......more