The Oversight Audiobook

Quotes

• “A teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized. This feels like the start of something amazing.”

  — Mike Carey, New York Times bestselling author of The Unwritten

• “Full of clever blendings of real history and imaginary embellishments…Compelling and hypnotic.”

  — Boing Boing

• “Richly atmospheric (the evil lurks in the background of every paragraph), the book should be a big hit with supernatural-fantasy readers. This is the first of a projected trilogy, and two things are apparent: three books might not be enough to tell this epic-size story, and the second book can’t come soon enough.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “There used to be hundreds in the Oversight, guarding our world from magic, but they have dwindled to a single Hand…The long odds and high stakes keep the tension high and the pages turning, while the world building and characters are worth lingering over. Fans of Susanna Clarke’s Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell will enjoy this.”

  — Library Journal

• “First of a Dickensian supernatural—or, as Fletcher prefers it, ‘supranatural’—fantasy trilogy, from the screenwriter and author of Stoneheart…Intriguing.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized. This feels like the start of something amazing.”

  — Mike Carey, writer for Marvel and DC Comics

• “Fletcher’s Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There’s a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest misstep.”

  — Frances Hardinge, bestselling author of Fly by Night

• A teeming world of dark deeds and dark magics, brilliantly realized. This feels like the start of something amazing.

  — M. R. Carey on The Oversight

• Fletcher's Victorian London is juicily vivid, and laced with macabre wit. There's a real sense of grim danger, both natural and unnatural, hungrily awaiting the slightest mis-step.

  — Frances Hardinge on The Oversight

• I couldn't stop reading... It really is a richly atmospheric and intensely readable slice of Victoriana: gothic as all get out, with a splendidly eerie sense of the way the unearthly lies cheek-by-jowl with the mundane. Cheerable goodies, grotesque baddies: the whole book is adventurous and flavorsome and gripping. I really enjoyed it.

  — Adam Roberts on The Overight

• The second book can't come soon enough.

  — Booklist on The Oversight

• Utterly enthralling: Charles Dickens meets Susanna Clarke.

  — Lou Morgan on The Oversight

• It's full of clever blendings of real history and imaginary embellishments.... compelling and hypnotic.

  — Boing Boing on The Oversight

• [The] characters inhabit a complex, beautifully plotted adventure that begins a fantasy series. Go on and relish The Oversight without further prompting - then we can all wait eagerly for more!

  — Locus on The Oversight