Good news, everyone!
The never-before-published, long-awaited fifth book in the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians middle-grade series from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Brandon Sanderson will finally see release from Tor/Starscape! Get ready to read The Dark Talent, starting June 2016!
Check out the full cover and wraparound art by Scott Brundage below!
Alcatraz Smedry has successfully defeated the army of Evil Librarians and saved the kingdom of Mokia. Too bad he managed to break the Smedry Talents in the process. Even worse, his father is trying to enact a scheme that could ruin the world, and his friend, Bastille, is in a coma. To revive her, Alcatraz must infiltrate the Highbrary–known as The Library of Congress to Hushlanders–the seat of Evil Librarian power. Without his Talent to draw upon, can Alcatraz figure out a way to save Bastille and defeat the Evil Librarians once and for all?
And the full, wraparound illustration:
Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians Book #5: The Dark Talent comes out from Tor/Starscape in June of 2016.
Looks great!
But…why is Kaz so tall?
Kaz is short the guy behind him Biblioen.
Kaz is the shortest person on the cover. The tall guy is someone else.
my son and his friends are so excited for this… They are all 12-13 yrs old and this was their first series were they had to wait for a book – didnt know if the series would ever be finished… LOL welcome to the club boys.
@peter: Pray tell, who is the tall guy? I know, it’s probably a RAFO, but is it someone we already know at least?
Tall guy? Isn’t that Bastille?
@5 I’m pretty sure the “tall guy” they are referring to is the guy in the top hat and the beard on the left. I don’t know who that is, but I’m pretty sure the woman standing behind Alcatraz is Bastille’s mother, not Bastille, since she is in a coma according to the blurb.
The tall guy on the left is someone who features in book 5. :)
This is not my head cannon…nope.
Is that an altar of encyclopedias behind Draulin?
So I guess that explains the reference to Abraham Lincoln in book 3.
They should really stick to illustrated covers. This cover is nice. The illustration for the third book has Bastille looking pretty goofy, whereas the concept art was more inspiring. As Isaac from Tor noticed, Bastille looks a lot more awesome when holding a cool sword.
The lesson here is you shouldn’t fill a story with badass grandpas (especially hidden badass grandpas) and color-coordinated thirteen-year-old-girls who would probably resort to outright beating the bad fashion sense out of most college coeds (silver hair, silver jacket that acts as armor, and silver self-driving silver BMW? That’s how you get a theme rolling, folks) and then go giving out horrible pictures that make these people look like poorly-designed B-class shovelware.
I did kind of expect Draulin to look a little less like one of Cinderella’s ugly step sisters, though. It’s implied Bastille is not unattractive, and that her sister’s second career option after Queen of Mokia was centerfold model; apparently they don’t inherit either of these traits from their mother’s side of the family.
Would like to know please- will there be a boxed set of some sort (prefer hard covers) once book 5 comes out ???
Just wondering when i will be able to buy this on the Kindle Store in New Zealand? I have young kids who ruin physical books so wanted to get e-version