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Shaun Hamill
August 27 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Magic City Books is thrilled to welcome Shaun Hamill for a free in-store event to celebrate his new book, The Dissonance on Tuesday August 27 at 7:00 pm.
The Dissonance is Hamill’s follow up to the beloved A Cosmology of Monsters and has received multiple starred reviews.
“Pure magic. A novel that sparks with wonder, heartbreak, and hope. Wildly endearing and compulsively readable, with an immersive, richly drawn world and vibrant characters you’ll never forget. The truths within–about friendship, about pain, about growing up and making mistakes– are beautiful and absolute. A masterpiece.”
–Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep and Such Sharp Teeth“The most impressive magical feat of The Dissonance are the four teen friends and their complicated, cringy, familiar wart-filled relationship, one imbued with enough love to refill your soul. The result is that this wildly imaginative, thrilling, time-hopping, magic and monsters epic feels authentic and lived in. Not sure how Shaun did it. The jerk.”
–Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts
Shaun Hamill will be joined in conversation by Magic City bookseller, Kelly Brown.
About The Dissonance
From the acclaimed author of A Cosmology of Monsters (“I loved it” –Stephen King) comes an epic contemporary fantasy, a mixture of The Magicians and It a story of dark magic, terrible mistakes, and second chances.
“You can never go home again,” the saying goes–but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone.
But now, terrifying signs and portents (not to mention a pointed Facebook invite) have summoned them back to Clegg, Texas. There, their paths will collide with that of Owen, a closeted teenager from Alabama whose aborted cemetery seance with his crush summoned something far worse: a murderous entity whose desperate, driving purpose includes kidnapping Owen to serve as its Renfield. As Owen tries to outwit his new master, and Hal, Athena, and Erin reckon with how the choices they made as teens might connect to the apocalyptic event unfurling over the Lone Star State, shocking alliances form, old and new romances brew, and three unsuccessful adults and one frightened teen are all that stand between reality and oblivion.
From one of the boldest, most brilliant voices in modern fantastical horror, The Dissonance is a thrilling and beautifully written story of magic and monsters, forgiveness and friendship.
SHAUN HAMILL received his BA in English from the University of Texas at Arlington, and his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His debut novel, A Cosmology of Monsters, was published in 2019. His fiction has appeared in Carve and Come Join Us By the Fire 2. His nonfiction has appeared at Crimereads and Tor Nightfire and he is a frequent cohost on The Dungeons & Dragons Lorecast. He lives and works near Dallas-Fort Worth.
The Dissonance is on sale now at Magic City Books. It can also be purchased online at: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/…/the-dissonance/2348.