Madame Askew and The Grand Arbiter

Sunday, July 20th, at 4:30 PM Pacific (Seattle/Tucson)

Time for another excellent summer read! Our July pick is a the fantasy meets steampunk gem, Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher. Get ready for a delightful rag-tag band of adventures facing off against deadly mechanical soldiers to save their city. They’ll use the power of snarky dialogue, clever tactics, and audacity to confront this clockwork menace! (If you love movies like the Dirty Dozen or the recent Dungeon’s and Dragon’s movie, this may be the perfect book for you!)

Our book chat returns to the 3rd Sunday of the month, July 20th at 4:30 PM Pacific (Seattle/Tucson) — 7:30 PM Eastern (Atlanta). You do not need to finish the book in order to attend book club but there may be spoilers.

Bookshop.org Blurb:

A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not the start of a joke, but rather an espionage mission with deadly serious stakes. T. Kingfisher’s new novel begins the tale of a murderous band of criminals (and a scholar), thrown together in an attempt to unravel the secret of the Clockwork Boys, mechanical soldiers from a neighboring kingdom that promise ruin to the Dowager’s city.

If they succeed, rewards and pardons await, but that requires a long journey through enemy territory, directly into the capital. It also requires them to refrain from killing each other along the way! At turns darkly comic and touching, Clockwork Boys puts together a broken group of people trying to make the most of the rest of their lives as they drive forward on their suicide mission.

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