“Grisly, dark, lovely, funny, heartfelt.” —Kirkus, starred review on Saint Death’s Daughter
“Every character arrives in a burst: fully-realized, always finding their mark, dripping with detail and a fire in their heart.” —Reactor on Saint Death’s Daughter
“Wildly inventive.” —Buzzfeed on Saint Death’s Daughter
“You can’t help but learn to love death alongside her.” —Rhianna Pratchett on Saint Death’s Daughter
“Soaring with love and absolutely fizzing with tenderness and joy—I have never read anything so utterly alive.” —Amal El-Mohtar on Saint Death’s Daughter
“Effulgent, effervescent, effusively beautiful. Every superlative I can think of and then some. Cooney’s Saint Death’s Herald is a perfect joy of a book and I love it like I love the sun.” —Cassandra Khaw, author of The Library at Hellebore
“Bold and ambitious, brilliantly black-humoured and fantastically strange. Saint Death’s Herald is an ode to gods, ghosts, Death and necromancers – and getting out alive. Gruesomely gorgeous.” —Angela “A.G.” Slatter, award-winning author of The Crimson Road
“An incredible book.” —FanFiAddict
“Highly recommended to lovers of necromancers, LGBTQ+ fantasy, and tangential footnotes.” —Paste
“Morbidly effervescent, joyfully macabre, lucidly baroque, a gift of bright warmth beneath syrup and knives and a film of glittering ice.” —Kathleen Jennings, author of Honeyeater
“A compelling continuation… delightful and fulfilling.” —Skiffy and Fanty
“Cooney’s sophomore outing is a rip-roaring, tiger-carpet-soaring, shapeshifter-lore-ing, wizard-duel-a-warring wonder… [she] writes like a yule log on fire: warm, crackling, snapping from time to time to keep you on your toes.” —Reactor