This is the story of Olivia, and how finding out you have a family that you have always yearned for isn’t necessarily the best of things. In particular, it haunts a family who seems to be tasked with minding the gap between the two worlds. In Gallant, there is an entire shadow world and it haunts ours. It’s the idea that we all have a part of ourselves that we want to repress out of existence. So I was very excited to receive an arc of Gallant, which did not disappoint.Ĭarl Jung wrote that we all have a shadow self. The Archived is one of my favorites, and you can’t go wrong with This Savage Song and The City of Ghosts. What if there was a world almost like ours, but darker? And what if you found the seam between these worlds and could cross over into that darker version of this world? Could you resist crossing over the seam? Could you resist the darkness? Olivia has always wanted to belong somewhere, but will she take her place as a Prior, protecting our world against the Master of the House? Or will she take her place beside him?

Now Olivia sees what has unraveled generations of her family, and where her father may have come from. The manor is crumbling, the ghouls are solid, and a mysterious figure rules over all. When she crosses a ruined wall at just the right moment, Olivia finds herself in a place that is Gallant-but not.

Olivia knows that Gallant is hiding secrets, and she is determined to uncover them. But Olivia is not about to leave the first place that feels like home, it doesn’t matter if her cousin Matthew is hostile or if she sees half-formed ghouls haunting the hallways. Yet when Olivia arrives, no one is expecting her. Then, a letter invites Olivia to come home-to Gallant. Olivia Prior has grown up in Merilance School for girls, and all she has of her past is her mother’s journal-which seems to unravel into madness. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. Publisher’s Book Description: Everything casts a shadow.

Victoria schwab gallant