When Baba Yaga offers to give you your heart ’s desire , you should really think twice about accepting . Summer , the absurdly sheltered agonist of Ursula Vernon ’s new novelSummer in Orcus , encounters the witch and lands in a life-threatening illusion world . And you may read all about it for free online .
Hugo Award - winning cartoonist and author Ursula Vernon is nothing if not versatile . She ’s given us the uproarious ( and sometimes serious ) webcomic epicDigger , children ’s books like theDragonbreathand theHamster Princessseries , and haunt brusque stories like“Jackalope Wives”and“The Sea Witch Sets the Record Straight . ”
of late , under the pseudonym T. Kingfisher , Vernon has been unblock fairy story - insipred book for older readers . ( Personally , I recently read and very much enjoyedThe Seventh Bride . ) Her late T. Kingfisher book is Summer in Orcus , and here ’s how she describe it :
When the Wiccan Baba Yaga walks her house into the backyard , eleven - year - old Summer enters into a bargain for her heart ’s desire . Her search will take her to the strange , surreal world of Orcus , where birds talk , women interchange their shape , and frogs sometimes grow on tree . But underneath the whimsy of Orcus lie a lasting dark , and Summer finds herself hunted by the monstrous Houndbreaker , who serves the distant , mysterious Queen - in - Chains …
The first two chapter are already up , and there will be two young updates each week . So far , it ’s great fun , introducing us to Summer , a daughter who is being smothered by her mother ’s sexual love and fear when Baba Yaga shows up in her famous business firm .
On her website , Vernon explains she ’s able-bodied to release this book for free thanks to the generosity of herPatreondonors . So if you wish her clobber , consider supporting her .
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