And when a sinister force threatens to alter reality for good, they will have to do everything they can to stop it before it unravels everything they know. But as he and the others are dragged into unimaginable worlds that materialize out of nowhere-the gym warps into a subterranean temple, a historical home nearby blooms into a Victorian romance rife with scandal and sorcery-Kane realizes that nothing in his life is an accident. And it’s not just Kane who’s different, the world feels off, reality itself seems different.Īs Kane pieces together clues, three almost-strangers claim to be his friends and the only people who can truly tell him what’s going on. He can’t remember how he got there, what happened after, and why his life seems so different now.

Inception meets The Magicians in the most imaginative YA debut of the year!Īll Kane Montgomery knows for certain is that the police found him half-dead in the river.

Publisher & publication date: December 3rd 2019 by Sourcebooks Fire Representation: Gay protagonist, gay love interest, several major supporting characters who are sapphic one of whom is a woc, major character who is queer, a drag queen and possibly a poc (described as being golden), minor characters who are sapphic/lesbiansĬontent warnings: violence, torture, murder, anxiety, homophobia, sexism, manipulation/gas lighting, trauma, bullying, character being excluded/ignored by classmates due to being gay, descriptions of bullying in the past, references to abusive/narcissistic parent, references to grandparent suffering from Alzheimer’s

Reverie by Ryan La Sala