David Hair is the New Zealand-based author of three fantasy series. The Aotearoa Series is a young adult series published by HarperCollins in New Zealand. His first novel, The Bone Tiki, won Best First Book at the 2010 NZ Post Children's Book Awards. The series is built around the concept of two parallel New Zealands--the modern world, and another magical world peopled by legends, historical personages, and the ghosts of ordinary New Zealanders. There are six books in the series, which concluded in 2014 with Magic and Makutu. Hair has also written a four book YA series, The Return of Ravana, set in India and published by Penguin India. The series tells the story of a group of people whose lives are linked by one tragic past life, the consequences of which resonate in every subsequent life, with horrific results. Book One, Pyre of Queens, won the LIANZA award for Best YA Novel in 2012.
"Scarlet Tides is simply faster, better and even more satisfying
that its prequel. So long for the difficult second book--Hair seems
to handle these with ease and I'm already looking forward to the
third one even though it's so far away."--Liviu Suciu, Fantasy Book
Critic
"A heavy tome with lots of excellent story inside of
it."--Novelnaut
"A mashup of J.R.R. Tolkien and Henry Kissinger... Hair capably
spins a rather elaborate storyline, or better multiple storylines,
all suitably tangled, given the conspiracies and mind-scramblings
that are afoot... the reader will want to keep plenty of gnostic
energy on hand...fans of the series will be eager to see what comes
next."--Kirkus Reviews
"Along the way, the author introduces some very unusual fantasy
elements and handles them well. One such is a magical construct,
the Leviathan Bridge that is underwater most of the time....this
engrossing story will continue in the third episode, Unholy
War."--Bookloons
"David Hair's Scarlet Tides, the second novel in his Moontide
Quartet series, has been compared to great fantasy epics such as A
Song of Ice and Fire and The Wheel of Time, and it easily earns it
place amongst them... Scarlet Tides is an engaging, well-developed
book."--Fanboy Comics
"Hair takes his time with all these narrative arcs, allowing the
characters lots of space within which to grow. Depth of character
was a strong point in Mage's Blood and it is here as well. Many of
the characters are realistically complex, few remain the same by
the end of the novel, and many are thrown into situations that
either reveal or create different facets of their
personality."--Fantasy Literature Reviews
"Hair's Scarlet Tides continues a fantastic epic fantasy series
with a great cast, immersive world, and fascinating system of magic
that builds to a stunning several-hundred page conclusion in the
vein of Steven Erikson, where everything possible happens to
everyone. He improved on everything that made Mage's Blood so good
and added even more oomph to it. I cannot wait to start Unholy
War."--A Bitter Draft
"I love the depth of Hair's magic system, as well as the wide
variety of his characters...We've got two more books left in David
Hair's world, and I can't wait to see what he's got up his sleeves
next."--Geeksmash
"One of the best epic fantasies for a long time... If you do not
read any other fantasy book this year, ensure you read Scarlet
Tides."--Opionator
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