Ava Reed - Fable for the End of the World
- Vanessa Bettencourt
- Mar 7
- 2 min read
Book Info:
Fable for the End of the World by Ava Reid
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publishing Date: March 4, 2025
Synopsis:
The Last of Us meets The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in this standalone dystopian romance about survival, sacrifice, and love that risks everything.
By encouraging massive accumulations of debt from its underclass, a single corporation, Caerus, controls all aspects of society.
Inesa lives with her brother in a half-sunken town where they scrape by running a taxidermy shop. Unbeknownst to Inesa, their cruel and indolent mother has accrued an enormous debt—enough to qualify one of her children for Caerus’s livestreamed assassination spectacle: the Lamb’s Gauntlet.
Melinoë is a Caerus assassin, trained to track and kill the sacrificial Lambs. The product of neural reconditioning and physiological alteration, she is a living weapon, known for her cold brutality and deadly beauty. She has never failed to assassinate one of her marks.
When Inesa learns that her mother has offered her as a sacrifice, at first she despairs—the Gauntlet is always a bloodbath for the impoverished debtors. But she’s had years of practice surviving in the apocalyptic wastes, and with the help of her hunter brother, she might stand a chance of staying alive.
For Melinoë, this is a game she can’t afford to lose. Despite her reputation for mercilessness, she is haunted by painful flashbacks. After her last Gauntlet, where she broke down on livestream, she desperately needs redemption.
As Mel pursues Inesa across the wasteland, both girls begin to question everything: Inesa wonders if there’s more to life than survival, while Mel wonders if she’s capable of more than killing.
And both wonder if, against all odds, they might be falling in love.
Content Warning: class inequality, child abuse, assassination, trauma, violence, animal death, death of child, adult/minor relationship, sexual harassment, blood & gore, injury detail, dead body, medical content, gun violence, fire/fire injury, drug use, alcoholism (past), emesis
Book Links:
Barnes & Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/fable-for-the-end-of-the-world-deluxe-limited-edition-ava-reid/1145023581
About the Author:
Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of A Study in Drowning, Lady Macbeth, Juniper & Thorn, and The Wolf and the Woodsman. Her books have been published in over fourteen territories. She lives in the New York area.
Ava Reid is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of gothic fantasies, including A Study in Drowning, Juniper & Thorn, and Lady Macbeth. She lives in California.
Author Links:
Website: https://avasreid.tumblr.com/about
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@avasreid
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/avasreid
Tour Schedule:
@tbrbeyondtours & @avasreid
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