"Vibrant, explosive, deliciously dangerous, and impossibly fun." --Tasha Suri

"A brilliant alchemical recipe!" --Olivia Atwater

"I loved getting lost in this dazzling debut." --Shannon Chakraborty

A wickedly entertaining fantasy debut bursting with wild magic, chaotic sword-fighting street gangs, brazen flirting, malevolent harpies, and one defiant alchemist. Welcome to Bezim, where sword-slinging bravi race through the night, and where rich and idle alchemists make magic out of mixing and measuring the four planes of reality.

Siyon Velo, Dockside brat turned petty alchemist, scrapes a living hopping between the planes to harvest ingredients for the city's alchemists. But when Siyon accidentally commits an act of impossible magic, he's catapulted into the limelight--which is a bad place to be when the planes start lurching out of alignment, threatening to send the city into the sea.

It will take a miracle to save Bezim. Good thing Siyon has pulled off the impossible before. Now he just has to master it.

The Burnished City
Notorious Sorcerer


Author: Davinia Evans
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Orbit
Published: 09/13/2022
Series: The Burnished City #1
Pages: 448
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780316398039


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/04/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/01/2022
Library Journal 08/01/2022 pg. 75
Booklist 08/01/2022 pg. 42
BookPage 09/01/2022

About the Author

Davinia Evans was born in the tropics and raised on British comedy. With a lifelong fantasy-reading habit and an honours thesis in political strategy, it was perhaps inevitable that she turn to a life of crafting stories full of sneaky ratbags tangling with magic. She lives in Melbourne, Australia, with two humans (one large and one small), a neurotic cat, and a cellar full of craft beer. Dee talks more about all of that on Twitter as @cupiscent