"The Music of Razors is a nightmarishly imaginative debut from a
writer of real assurance and vision. Watch him: he's going to go
places." – Neil Gaiman
"Dark, disturbing, and filled with
moments of real charm and magic, The Music of Razors is the best first
novel I've seen this year." – Locus
In
nineteenth-century Boston, a young doctor falls in with an British
confidence artist. Together – and with dire consequences – they bring
back to the light something meant to be forgotten.
A world away
in London, an absent father, haunted by the voice of a banished angel,
presents his daughter with an impossible friend – a clockwork ballerina.
For two centuries a bullet-removal specialist has wielded instruments
of angel bone in service to a forgotten power... and now he vows to
find someone else to shoulder the burden, someone with a conscience of
their own, a strong mind and a broken will. For a hundred years he has
searched for the perfect contender, and now he has found two: a brother
and a sister, Walter and Hope. Either will do.
Last night
something stepped from little Walter's closet and he never woke up. Now
he travels the dark road between worlds, no longer entirely boy nor
wholly beast, but with one goal in mind: to prevent his sister from
suffering the same fate as he. Only the creature he has become can save
Hope. But is it too late to save himself?
"Cameron Rogers writes like a magician." – K. J. Bishop, author of The Etched City
The Music of Razors is superior fantasy, fast-paced and seductive. It
digs deep for effect and delivers." – Sean Williams, author of The Resurrection Man
"Packed with surreal images that haunt you long after you've put down
the book." – Storm Constantine, author of The Wraeththu Trilogy
