Deceit

‘Two years before moving out, my father told my mother I was really ugly,” begins Elena Ferrante’s The Lying Life of Adults in an echo of Flaubert’s Madame Bovary. When 12-year-old Giovanna, from an affluent neighbourhood in Naples, overhears her father compare her to his hated sister, Vittoria, about whom he once said “ugliness and spite were combined to perfection”, her world is turned upside down. She had always sought the approval of her father, a leftwing intellectual and teacher who, in turn, took pride in his…

Image: Disney Lucasfilm PressNew Disney+ series Andor is grabbing all the Star Wars attention lately, but for High Republic fans, there’s a new tale out next week well worthy of notice. io9 is thrilled to have an exclusive excerpt from Star Wars: The High Republic: Path of Deceit, the latest in the series. It’s by Justina Ireland (2021's Out of the Shadows) and Tessa Gratton (who has Quest for Planet X due next year).Here’s a summary of the book to give you some context in the galaxy far, far away:Set in the world of the…

Inset of Dragonlance: Dragons of Deceit cover by Philipp Ulrich.Image: Wizards of the Coast/Random HouseIt’s been 13 years since authors Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman wrote a Dragonlance novel, based on the Dungeons & Dragons game setting whose tone they largely defined. That changes in August when their new book Dragons of Deceit, the first in the Dragonlance Destinies trilogy, is published starring the fan-favorite characters of the original novels as well as a new protagonist named Destina Rosethorn. io9 is…