PRAISE FOR THE DISSONANCE"The prose is crisp and punchy; there's never a word wasted but it's always evocative, whether capturing the oppressive humidity of a Texan summer or the terror of an encounter with the supernatural. A tale of friendship and growing up enhanced with a thrilling frisson of fear."-SFX"Pure magic. A novel that sparks with wonder, heartbreak, and hope. Wildly endearing and compulsively readable, with an immersive, richly drawn world and vibrant characters you'll never forget. The truths within-about friendship, about pain, about growing up and making mistakes- are beautiful and absolute. A masterpiece."-Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of Black Sheep and Such Sharp Teeth"The most impressive magical feat of The Dissonance are the four teen friends and their complicated, cringy, familiar wart-filled relationship, one imbued with enough love to refill your soul. The result is that this wildly imaginative, thrilling, time-hopping, magic and monsters epic feels authentic and lived in. Not sure how Shaun did it. The jerk."-Paul Tremblay, author of The Cabin at the End of the World and A Head Full of Ghosts "Shaun Hamill proves there are strange new worlds yet to be explored on the bookshelf. The Dissonance is yet another testament to Hamill's mantel as a master storyteller, blending the terrors and wonders of traumatic magic. You won't read another novel quite like The Dissonance this year, or perhaps ever in this life-or even beyond it."-Clay McLeod Chapman, author of What Kind of Mother and Ghost Eaters"A brilliantly rendered tale of friendship, redemption, cosmic horror, and so much heart. The Dissonance cements Hamill as a master world-builder and one of the most exciting voices in fantasy today. I already want to reread this book."--Erin A. Craig, #1 New York Times bestselling author of House of Roots and Ruin"The Dissonance packs all the punch of a 'kids on bikes' adventure-that is, if instead of bikes, the kids were riding waves of terror conjured by eldritch horrors. Shaun Hamill will make you nostalgically recall your first kiss-and mere pages later, he'll gift you a demon in a skinsuit puking out its own entrails. And the most messed up part? It works. If you, like me, wish there was an Animorphs for fucked up grown-ups-wish granted."-GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot
