Leviathan's Blood - (Children) by Ben Peek (Paperback)

About the Book

A new god has risen. The immortal Zaifyr has arrived at the Floating Cities in chains, to await trial for murder. Despite this, he's preparing for war against a new child god - for she will do anything to destroy those who stand in her way. A city has fallen. Ayae must fight to protect the survivors, and finds herself ensnared in a web of political intrigue. She'll find politics can be as lethal as any sword, and hers is not the only life at stake. A warrior has arrived. Across the ocean, the exile Bueralan returns home. And he's bearing a dead man's soul around his neck. God-touched and grief-stricken, he treads a dangerous path. He'll confront a legendary fighter ...and discover a secret that will change the world. The epic second title in The Children Trilogy, following The Godless

Book Synopsis

The second novel in Ben Peek's epic Children trilogy, continuing from The Godless.

Review Quotes

"Ben Peek is a writer I fully expect to blunder out into the scene like a run-away brontosaurus one of these days. He has titanic talent." ―Jeff Vandermeer, Locus on Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth

"Peek weaves multiple threads of the plot together with considerable skill . . . readers fond of open-ended epic fantasies set in vivid, and occasionally lurid, worlds will find it right up their alley." --Publishers Weekly on The Godless

About the Author

Ben Peek is the critically acclaimed author of the first book in the Children Trilogy, The Godless, and three previous novels: Black Sheep, Twenty-Six Lies/One Truth, and Above/Below, co-written with Stephanie Campisi. He has also written a short story collection, Dead Americans.