The Grimoire of Grave Fates, January LaVoy
The Grimoire of Grave Fates, January LaVoy
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The Grimoire of Grave Fates

Author: January LaVoy

Narrator: January LaVoy, Nicky Endres

Unabridged: 12 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/06/2023

Synopsis

Crack open your spell book and enter the world of the illustrious Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary. There's been a murder on campus, and it's up to the students of Galileo to solve it. Follow 18 authors and 18 students as they puzzle out the clues and find the guilty party.

Professor of Magical History Septimius Dropwort has just been murdered, and now everyone at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary is a suspect.

A prestigious school for young magicians, the Galileo Academy has recently undergone a comprehensive overhaul, reinventing itself as a roaming academy in which students of all cultures and identities are celebrated. In this new Galileo, every pupil is welcome—but there are some who aren't so happy with the recent changes. That includes everyone's least favorite professor, Septimius Dropwort, a stodgy old man known for his harsh rules and harsher punishments. But when the professor's body is discovered on school grounds with a mysterious note clenched in his lifeless hand, the Academy's students must solve the murder themselves, because everyone's a suspect. 

Told from more than a dozen alternating and diverse perspectives, The Grimoire of Grave Fates follows Galileo's best and brightest young magicians as they race to discover the truth behind Dropwort's mysterious death. Each one of them is confident that only they have the skills needed to unravel the web of secrets hidden within Galileo's halls. But they're about to discover that even for straight-A students, magic doesn't always play by the rules. . . .

Contributors include: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Hafsah Faizal, Jessica Lewis, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Díaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Méndez

About The Author

The Editors:Hanna Alkaf graduated with a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and spent over ten years writing everything from B2B marketing emails to investigative feature articles, from nonprofit press releases to corporate brochures. She writes unapologetically Malaysian YA and MG novels, including The Weight of Our Sky, The Girl and the Ghost, and Queen of the Tiles. Margaret Owen was born and raised at the end of the Oregon Trail, and now lives and writes in Seattle while negotiating a long-term hostage situation with her two monstrous cats. In her free time, she enjoys exploring ill-advised travel destinations and raising money for social justice nonprofits through her illustrations. She is the author of The Merciful Crow and its sequel, The Faithless Hawk, as well as Little Theives.With stories from contributors: Cam Montgomery, Darcie Little Badger, Jessica Lewis, Hafsah Faizal, Julian Winters, Karuna Riazi, Kat Cho, Kayla Whaley, Kwame Mbalia, L. L. McKinney, Marieke Nijkamp, Mason Deaver, Natasha Diaz, Preeti Chhibber, Randy Ribay, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Victoria Lee, and Yamile Saied Mendez.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Spens on July 24, 2023

Actual rating: 3.5 I was really enjoying this up until about three quarters in. The characters were so diverse and their magical abilities were so interesting that it kept me intrigued. Unfortunately the closer I neared the end the more it became apparent that the payoff for the actual plot and the m......more

Goodreads review by AndiReads on November 21, 2022

This is the coolest book, well, anthology, ever!!! What a fantastic idea! Editors Owen and Alkaf worked with 18 well known authors to create a story from multiple writers, characters and perspectives! Each chapters flows into the next seamlessly leading the reader to the murderer! In Grimoire, we are......more

Goodreads review by Starr on June 11, 2023

I received an ARC from Netgalley TW: slight gore, racism & references to colonization, casual ableism, hallucinations/delusions, casual transphobia 4 Intertwining short story collections are always a lot of fun, and it's exciting to see more of them coming out! I think that this concept in particul......more

Goodreads review by Erin on April 28, 2023

2 Stars, unfortunately rounded up Potentially my most disappointing read of 2023 (though not the worst so far). This book had so much potential. This book has so much potential. The layers of magic, the bright diversity, the flashy characters (and under-the-radar, existing-in-the-shadows) characters......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on August 30, 2024

This was like reading seventeen first chapters in a row. The idea behind this is cool in theory, but most of the authors weren't talented enough to pull off the challenge, and again, a central flaw here is that each chapter is narrated by a new "main character" and is written by a different YA autho......more

Quotes

"Spell-binding in every way... an anthology like no other!" —The Nerd Daily

★ “Eighteen heroes, individual yet not alone, beautifully find self-respect and force their school to change.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review

"Readers who’ve been burned by less culturally sensitive wizard schools will rejoice... The range of racial, ethnic, gendered, variously abled, and neurodiverse identities in a magic school setting is vastly appealing, and meditations on 'chosen one' clichés and sly meta-commentary make this especially enjoyable for genre-savvy readers."—The Bulletin

"[A] magical mystery." —Publishers Weekly

"Highly recommended for readers who love genre blending, magic with morals, and a good whodunit." —Booklist

"Exceptionally diverse and delightfully funny." —School Library Journal

"A resonant message of hope for a better future, magical or otherwise." —BookPage

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