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No Gods, No Monsters

By Cadwell Turnbull
No Gods, No Monsters by Cadwell Turnbull digital book - Fable

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Named a BEST BOOK OF 2021 by the New York Times, NPR, the New York Public Library, Audible, Tor.com, Book Riot, Library Journal, and Kirkus!

Longlisted for the 2022 PEN Open Book Award

“Riveting…[A] tender, ferocious book.”—New York Times

“Beautifully fantastical.”—NPR

“Masterful.”—Chicago Tribune

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.

As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend’s trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters.

At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark?

The world will soon find out.

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“I got 25% of the way through and just couldn't make myself finish. The premise intrigued me and it started off pretty interesting. After a while, some very off putting things (for me personally) kinda killed my desire to continue. Not for me.”
Anxious Face with sweat“I could not get myself to read this book. It took me two weeks to get through about 10% of it and unfortunately I couldn't get any further. It's well written and the author has a bunch of things going for the book, I just did not get pulled in by the story. The premise was cool and it has been on my TBR for a while, but I just ended up not enjoying it unfortunately.”

About Cadwell Turnbull

Cadwell Turnbull is the author of The Lesson and No Gods, No Monsters. His short fiction has appeared in The Verge, Lightspeed, Nightmare, Asimov’s Science Fiction, and several anthologies, including The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018 and The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019. The Lesson was the winner of the 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Award in the debut category and No Gods, No Monsters won the 2022 Lambda Literary Award for Best LGBTQ Speculative Fiction. Turnbull lives in Lafayette, IN.

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