Cubierta y sinopsis de The Tapestry of Fate

Recuerdo que lo pasé muy bien leyendo The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi, de Shannon Chakraborty, así que tengo bastantes esperanzas depositadas en The Tapestry of Fate, su continuación, que se publicará el 19 de mayo.

Esta es la sinopsis:

Amina al-Sirafi thinks she’s struck gold. Tasked with hunting down arcane artifacts for the council of immortal peris, she can savor the occasional rollicking adventure on the high seas with her cherished criminal companions while still returning home to raise her beloved daughter, Marjana. But when Raksh, the spirit of discord with whom she is reluctantly wed, provokes the council’s wrath, Amina is charged with a seemingly impossible quest: steal a spindle capable of rewriting fate from a mysterious sorceress on an island no one can escape.

Forced to leave Marjana—who is increasingly frustrated at being peddled what are clearly lies about her mother’s life and her own past—Amina finds her mission almost immediately thrown into peril. But deadly storms, an erratic poison mistress, and old enemies are the least of her worries. For the peris’ story is unraveling, hinting at a far deadlier game whose rules Amina must swiftly puzzle out. A game that sets her against an adversary more cunning and powerful than she has ever faced.

A game that not everyone on her crew wants her to win.

Mi traducción:

Amina al-Sirafi cree que ha cantado bingo. Con la tarea de buscar artefactos arcanos para el consejo de peligros inmortales, puede saborear de vez en cuando aventuras apasionantes en alta mar con sus queridos compañeros criminales y a la vez regresar a casa para criar a su amada hija, Marjana. Pero cuando Raksh, el espíritu de la discordia con el que está casada contra su voluntad, provoca la ira del consejo, Amina se encuentra con una tarea imposible: robar una rueca capaz de reescribir el destino de una hechicera misteriosa en una isla de la que nadie puede escapar.

Forzada a dejar a Marjana, que por cierto está cada vez más frustrada con los que son claramente mentiras sobre su pasado y el de su madre, Amina vez que su misión es terriblemente peligrosa desde el principio. Pero las tormentas mortales, una señora de los venenos de comportamiento errático y la vuelta de viejos enemigos son la menor de sus preocupaciones. Conforme se desarrolla la historia, se acumulan las pistas que apuntan a un juego mucho más mortífero que Amina deberá resolver. Un juego que la coloca frente a un adversario más taimado y poderoso que los que se haya enfrentado nunca.

Un juego que nadie de su tripulación quiere que gane.

Esta es la cubierta de la edición estadounidense:

Y esta, de la del Reino Unido:

Portada de The Kingdom of Copper

Aquí os traigo la que será portada de The Kingdom of Copper la continuación de The City of Brass de S. A. Chakraborty. No he leído la primera entrega aunque he de reconocer que me llama la atención.

La sinopsis:

Nahri’s life changed forever the moment she accidentally summoned Dara, a formidable, mysterious djinn, during one of her schemes. Whisked from her home in Cairo, she was thrust into the dazzling royal court of Daevabad—and quickly discovered she would need all her grifter instincts to survive there.

Now, with Daevabad entrenched in the dark aftermath of the battle that saw Dara slain at Prince Ali’s hand, Nahri must forge a new path for herself, without the protection of the guardian who stole her heart or the counsel of the prince she considered a friend. But even as she embraces her heritage and the power it holds, she knows she’s been trapped in a gilded cage, watched by a king who rules from the throne that once belonged to her family—and one misstep will doom her tribe.

Meanwhile, Ali has been exiled for daring to defy his father. Hunted by assassins, adrift on the unforgiving copper sands of his ancestral land, he is forced to rely on the frightening abilities the marid—the unpredictable water spirits—have gifted him. But in doing so, he threatens to unearth a terrible secret his family has long kept buried.

And as a new century approaches and the djinn gather within Daevabad’s towering brass walls for celebrations, a threat brews unseen in the desolate north. It’s a force that would bring a storm of fire straight to the city’s gates… and one that seeks the aid of a warrior trapped between worlds, torn between a violent duty he can never escape and a peace he fears he will never deserve.

Y la portada: