Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:00pm
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M.A. Carrick is an open pseudonym for writing team Marie Brennan and Alyc Helms. Brennan’s track record needs scant introduction, with twelve books to her name including, mostly recently, the acclaimed Memoirs of Lady Trent series and its spin-off sequel
Turning Darkness into Light. Helms is perhaps less well known, though they have previously published two solo novels, 2015’s
The Dragons of Heaven and 2016’s
The Conclave of Shadows.
The Mask of Mirrors is the first novel to come jointly from their pens, and it reminds me strikingly of the Astreiant novels of Melissa Scott and the late Lisa A. Barnett’s Astreiant novels, albeit more in worldbuilding and tone than in characters and concerns.