

But this river, during the day, seemed incapable of violence. Moonlight sliced to confetti on the black, broken water as paramedics wrenched him up.

In his mind, being pulled from the river would have been violent. Kane stood among the bishop’s-weed frothing at the bank, trying to imagine what it’d been like the night of the accident. It was on the verge of September, and the Housatonic River was swollen with late summer’s weeping. Read on, and check out La Sala’s website to learn more ahead of the January 2020 release. Sounds amazing, right? You don’t have to take our word for it, because you can read an exclusive excerpt of the novel below! You can also get the first look at the cover designed Leo Nickolls:

But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere-the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery-Kane realizes that nothing in his life is in accident, and only he can stop their town from unraveling. So when three of his classmates claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what’s going on, he doesn’t know what to believe or he can trust. And the world feels different… reality itself seems different. He can’t remember anything since the accident robbed him of his memories a few weeks ago. Promising a genre-blending, magic-filled thriller, it sounds perfect for fans of Young Adult authors like Zoraida Córdova and Daniel José Older.Įxcited? Here’s the description from the publisher:Īll Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river. Reverie, coming in January 2020 from Sourcebooks Fire, follows a gay teenager with amnesia who is haunted by a drag queen sorceress. When we heard that Ryan La Sala’s debut novel was marketed as Inception meets The Magicians, we couldn’t help but get excited.
