Navola would stand among the best of its genre even if a second volume never appeared ... Bacigalupi writes well enough that the book would be commendable even if the protagonist’s idyll continued to its last page.
Bacigalupi’s... new genre-bending fantasy is a coming-of-age tale set in a mob-like family, full of intrigue, betrayal, and the lust for power, status, and money.
[An] addictive account of the rivalries between powerful families in a brilliantly rendered fantastical world ... Admirers of Game of Thrones and Dorothy Dunnett’s House of Niccolò series will be riveted.
