A captivating adventure set in a fantastical world where a young woman must uncover the secrets of her past while confronting the present dangers of a magical wilderness.
Dennis Mahoney is the author of Fellow Mortals, a Booklist Top Ten Debut in 2013. He lives in upstate New York with his wife, son, and dog.
"If the core of fantasy is about creating an ideal world in which a
reader can explore and adventure with their heroes, Dennis Mahoney
is an author who reaches deep into the heart of the genre. . . .
Mahoney proves he can make a world that's both dream-like and
substantial with vivid descriptions, clever dialogue, and relatable
characters. Those wanting to find fantastical escape from the
everyday world are advised to pick up Bell Weather for satisfying
summer reading."
--Booklist"Set in a fantastical 18th century world where rain falls
up and color storms wash the land with bright hues, Bell Weather
is, at its core, the story of a spirited young woman fighting for
the freedom to choose her own path. . . . Mahoney has created a
marvelous world that readers will want to visit again and again.
"
--Indie Next List, July 2015 pick
"Mahoney's prose is lyrical and well-honed, and his characters are
engaging, but it's the magical realism of the wilderness that makes
this world so memorable and fascinating."
--BookPage"A young woman's past catches up with her in a magic,
recently colonized new world in this historical fantasy from
Mahoney (Fellow Mortals, 2013). . . . The real strength of this
novel is its stunning worldbuilding, which merges the aesthetic of
the Colonial Americas with Márquez-style magical realism."
--Kirkus
"[A] breakout novel . . . . Mahoney crafts sentences that take your
breath away. The paragraphs of his virtuoso new novel, Bell
Weather, move across the page like a summer thunderstorm, ominous
and volatile, crackling with electricity and portent."
--The Times Union (Albany)
"Set in a fantastical 18th-century world where rain falls up and
storms wash the land with bright hues, this is the story of Molly,
a spirited young woman fighting for the freedom to choose her own
path. Readers learn about her childhood with an overbearing
governess, a cold father, and a brilliant, cunning brother who will
stop at nothing to ensure that he and Molly are together and
unbridled."
--Boston Globe, Pick of the Week
"Mahoney has crafted a story of a strong-willed woman whose myriad
encounters with trouble refuse to break her. Bell Weather combines
a touch of magic, a few ghosts, a band of bad guys, and a heroine
it's impossible not to root for into a novel that captures from the
very start. . . . Fans of light fantasy and historical fiction
alike--and especially fans of the two combined--will be swept up .
. . . I found it impossible not to root for Molly . . . . She may
be imperfect, but her fight to make her own decisions and shape her
own future is as important in the imagined town of Root as it would
be in real life today, making her the perfect heroine to anchor
Mahoney's imaginative tale of love and redemption and family and
growth."
--Science Fiction Book Club, Recommended
"Dennis Mahoney has created a living map, one that clicks and
whirrs with unexpected clockwork. As the gears turn and the map
expands, storms of color wash through a historical landscape
usually rendered in umber and soot. Bell Weather presents a vivid,
fully realized, and fantastical new world."
--Will Chancellor, author of A Brave Man Seven Storeys Tall
"The time is far off, the place is charming strange, and this is
rollicking, jaw-clenching adventure."
--Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love
"Richly imagined in every detail, Bell Weather is a grand,
ambitious tapestry of a novel that utterly transports the reader. I
lost days in this amazing book."
--Ted Kosmatka, author of The Flicker Men
"It takes a lot for a book to stop the world from spinning, but the
moment I cracked Bell Weather, I was swept away by Dennis Mahoney's
stunning imagination. What incredible fun. There's an entirely new
and rich universe in town."
--Richard C. Morais, author of The Hundred-Foot Journey
"Bell Weather is both old-fashioned and newfangled, romantic and
strange. Fans of the fantastic have a new world in which to lose
themselves."
--Thomas Mullen, author of The Last Town on Earth
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