"Already one of my favorite books of the year . There's palace intrigue, a slow-burn enemies-to-lovers plot, sassy footnotes, and also there are mammoths! It's a total delight from start to finish." -- Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2024 "Pulley astonishes in this thorny and addictive sci-fi romance." -- Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "Full of charming details and gender-bending gallantry, this imaginative thriller is a pleasure to read." -- Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review "Readers will appreciate all the delightful details of worldbuilding, character arcs, and slow romantic tension." -- Library Journal "Pulley has wrapped an enemies-to-lovers, fake-marriage romance in a fascinating sf-world package . Magnetic . Charming .
Readers will have incredible fun reading about this slow-burn romance, the itch of two creepy background mysteries, and a delightful scene involving judgmental mammoths." -- Booklist "An incredibly ambitious novel . The Mars House is a complex and captivating story." -- Reactor Magazine "Few writers combine such warmth and heart with such consummate skill at Natasha Pulley. She sends the reader our into the skies, and deep into themselves, places we never knew we could travel. Reading her is both a joyful and profound experience-and The Mars House is her most daring, ambitious and exciting book yet." -- Catriona Ward "Natasha Pulley heads to the gulags, then to an atomic village, in her latest to combine fast-paced action and imaginative settings with beautifully developed queer relationships." -- CrimeReads Queer Mysteries and Thrillers to Read All Year Long on THE HALF LIFE OF VALERY K "Natasha Pulley builds a surreal world that slowly reveals immense dangers.
It's an absorbing Cold War thriller as well as a tribute to courage and determination." -- Christian Science Monitor on THE HALF LIFE OF VALERY K "Brilliantly conceived, vibrantly realized, and complexly suspenseful." -- Booklist, Starred Review on THE HALF LIFE OF VALERY K "Fans of such stories will be richly entertained by the lavish world-building and breakneck plotting of Natasha Pulley's The Kingdoms .Beautiful, surreal imagery appears throughout the novel, too . Clear a weekend if you can, and let yourself be absorbed." -- The New York Times Book Review on THE KINGDOMS.