The Book of Koli

Critics Review

• This is a BEAUTIFUL book. Gripping, engaging, and absolutely worth the time it takes to burrow yourself into its reality. I can’t recommend it highly enough

  Seanan McGuire

• Koli embarks on a journey as perilous as it is enlightening . . . Enthralling

  GUARDIAN

• I inhaled THE BOOK OF KOLI in record time. It’s the best thing I’ve read in a long time. I loved it!”

  Joanne Harris

• Carey writes with compassion and fire – strange and surprising and humane

  Lauren Beukes

• Deeply humanistic, and full of lush characterization and worldbuilding…M.R. Carey hefts astonishing storytelling power with plainspoken language, heartbreaking choices, and sincerity like an arrow to the heart. The Book of Koli is one of the best books I expect to read this year

  LOCUS

• An ingenious, dizzily provocative novel . . . Carey invents a fantastic far-future world, finding humanity in unlikely places

  Helen Marshall, World Fantasy Award-winning author

• Narrator Koli’s inquisitive mind and kind heart make him the perfect guide to Carey’s immersive, impeccably rendered world . . . A captivating start to what promises to be an epic post-apocalyptic fable

  KIRKUS

• The Book of Koli is one of my favorite books of the year . . . M.R. Carey has made a fan for life out of me. I recommend this book for all fantasy readers, and for anyone who is looking for a story that is different and engaging

  FANFIADDICT

• Mike Carey has always been brilliant, but THE BOOK OF KOLI is next-level. He packs more pure invention into this book than most authors achieve in a dozen. Harrowing adventure, post-post-apocalyptic drama, and Black Mirror genius. Can’t wait to see what happens next!

  Christopher Golden, NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author

• A refreshing, delightfully entertaining, and thought-provoking post-apocalyptic novel

  FANTASY HIVE

• I loved this. Koli’s world is a visionary future where humanity is going backwards at speed. It’s a thought-provoking and deeply engaging story and although nature is in revolt against humankind, being a Mike Carey book, it’s also profoundly and doggedly humane

  C. A. Fletcher, author of A BOY AND HIS DOG AT THE END OF THE WORLD

• Told in an enchanting, confessional first-person, we’re with Koli all the way, from the stifling security of village life into the direst peril

  DAILY MAIL

• The cadence and pacing of [Koli’s] voice adds a depth and richness to the strange and malevolent world

  BOOKLIST

• The first part of the Rampart Trilogy is an easy read, and an absorbing one, and while it feels sufficiently self-contained, it also leaves you eager to find out what happens next

  SFX

• Readers who are already fans of M.R. Carey will not want to miss this, and new readers should take heed: this book might turn you into a fan as well. Highly recommended!

  BOOKS, BONES AND BUFFY

• Heartfelt, remorseless and painfully human…as fresh as it is terrifying. A jewel

  Joss Whedon on THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

• Vividly memorable and unexpectedly poignant

  METRO on THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

• If you only read one novel this year, make sure it’s this one

  No. 1 bestselling author Martina Cole on THE GIRL WITH ALL THE GIFTS

• Carey is a writer with big ideas at the heart of his fable-esque storytelling

  SCIFINOW