In Gifted and Talented, three siblings are forced to reckon with their long-festering rivalries, dangerous abilities, and the crushing weight of all their unrealized potential.
Mark your calendars, LitStackers! Gifted and Talented by Olivie Blake is in presale (the best time to buy a book), and ready to hit the bookshelf on April 1, 2025. Our anticipation is palpable. Published by Tor Publishing Group, this fantasy novel is already making waves with early readers. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s on the cover, from the publisher’s official description to early reviews that will help you pre-order your copy ASAP. Let’s dive in!
In This Spotlight On Gifted and Talented
About Gifted and Talented
Where there’s a will, there’s a war.
Thayer Wren, the brilliant CEO of Wrenfare Magitech and so-called father of modern technology, is dead. Any one of his three telepathically and electrokinetically gifted children would be a plausible inheritor to the Wrenfare throne.
Or at least, so they like to think.
Meredith, textbook accomplished eldest daughter and the head of her own groundbreaking biotech company, has recently cured mental illness. You’re welcome! If only her father’s fortune wasn’t her last hope for keeping her journalist ex-boyfriend from exposing what she really is: a total fraud.
Arthur, second-youngest congressman in history, fights the good fight every day of his life. And yet, his wife might be leaving him, and he’s losing his re-election campaign. But his dead father’s approval in the form of a seat on the Wrenfare throne might just turn his sinking ship around.
Eilidh, once the world’s most famous ballerina, has spent the last five years as a run-of-the-mill marketing executive at her father’s company after a life-altering injury put an end to her prodigious career. She might be lacking in accolades compared to her siblings, but if her father left her everything, it would finally validate her worth—by confirming she’d been his favorite all along.
On the pipeline of gifted kid to clinically depressed adult, nobody wins—but which Wren will come out on top?
Praise for Gifted and Talented
“Told with Blake’s signature wit and driven by a cast of morally gray characters you will hate to love and love to hate, Gifted & Talented is equal parts black comedy, sharp indictment of privilege and power, and soaring, vicious drama. Addictively entertaining, this is Blake at the height of her abilities.”—Ava Reid, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lady Macbeth
“Incisive, unsparing, and utterly brilliant. Gifted & Talented is a remarkable character study meditating on the consequences of dynasty and power. Olivie Blake’s storytelling has risen to empyrean heights.”—Chloe Gong, New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Longings
“Take the love-to-hate-’em siblings of Succession, add a dash of The Magicians’ real-world magic, and put it together with Olivie Blake’s stellar sense of humor, and you have Gifted & Talented, a refreshing tale of spoiled-sibling woe, mysterious curses, and family complexity that will absolutely delight you.”—Veronica Roth, #1 New York Times bestselling author of When Among Crows
“Olivie Blake’s singular narrative voice sparkles in Gifted & Talented—a timely tale of greed, ambition, and rivalry which eviscerates the world of wealth and privilege in nimble and terrific style.”—M. L. Rio, bestselling author of If We Were Villians
“Gifted & Talented is a wickedly funny book about perfectly horrible people—and some of them even get what they deserve. Blake’s sly prose and vivid character work bring the dreadful siblings to life, but also give us moments of heart-clenching tenderness. A delight.”—Emily Tesh, Hugo Award-winning author of Some Desperate Glory“Succession gets the dark fantasy treatment in this riveting standalone from bestseller Blake… It’s just the kind of deliciously toxic interpersonal miasma that Blake’s fans have come to expect.”—Publishers Weekly
About Olivie Blake, Author of Gifted and Talented
Olivie Blake is the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, Alone with You in the Ether, One for My Enemy, Masters of Death, Januaries, and Gifted & Talented. As Alexene Farol Follmuth, she is also the author of the young adult rom-coms Twelfth Knight and My Mechanical Romance. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, goblin prince / toddler, and rescue pit bull.
You can connect with Olivie Blake on their website, and on Instagram and Tumblr.
Sources: Tor Publishing, MacMillan Publishing, Olivie Blake.
Publisher: Tor Publishing Group
ISBN-13: 9781250387707
Pub Date: Apr 4, 2025
Titles by Olivie Blake
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