City of Bones

Scheherazade meets Dumas: City of Bones is a wondrous Arabian Nights fantasy from a rising new
talent in the field.
A finalist for the 1993 Compton Crook Award, Martha Wells’s first work, The Element of Fire, earned
such acclaim as:
“A fascinating read...I had to finish it up in one fell swoop staying up until 2:30 to do so, and hadn’t
known I’d spent that much time in her world!”
— Anne McCaffrey