Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 11, 2012) This month, I’m busting the backlist with… Of course, you can also review backlist books any day you want, as often you want, but be sure to watch for her post at the end of the month to link up! Every last Friday of the month, she’ll be posting a review of a backlist book and is inviting anyone interested to do the same. Backlist Burndown is a new meme started by Lisa of Tenacious Reader.

As a result, one of my goals this year is to take more time to catch up with my backlist, especially in my personal reading pile. Backlist Burndown: The Rook by Daniel O’MalleyĪs book bloggers, sometimes we get so caught up reading review titles and new releases that we end up missing out on a lot previously published books. Dry wit, surprising reversals of fortune, and a clever if offbeat plot make this a winner' Publishers Weekly ' impressive debut, a supernatural detective thriller distinguished by its adept use of humour. In 2019 the all-star TV series aired on Stan in Australia and Starz in the US. In 2012 it won Best Science Fiction Novel at the 2012 Aurealis Awards, and in 2015 it reached the eighth most borrowed adult-fiction title position in Australian libraries. It was one of Time magazine's books of the year, and authors from Lev Grossman ('outrageously good') to Charlaine Harris ('I love this book!') lined up to sing its praises. THE ROOK was published in 2012 to wide international acclaim. She also discovers that she possesses a rare and deadly supernatural ability of her own.

She soon learns that she is a Rook, a high-ranking member of a secret organization called the Checquy that battles the many supernatural forces at work in Britain. With no recollection of who she is, Myfanwy must follow the instructions her former self left behind to discover her identity and track down the agents who want to destroy her. So begins the letter Myfanwy Thomas is holding when she awakes in a London park surrounded by bodies all wearing latex gloves. 'The body you are wearing used to be mine.'

'Just outrageously good' Lev Grossman, Time magazine 'I love this book!' Charlaine Harris. The thrilling, hilarious, genre-busting Aurealis Award-winning novel about a supernatural MI5. NOW A STUNNING TV SHOW streaming on Stan.

The Rook by Daniel O'Malley