Gifted & Talented

Succession meets magic in no. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Gifted & Talented – an epic standalone novel from internationally bestselling sensation Olivie Blake. Perfect for fans of Olivie Blake’s The Atlas Six and Yellowface by R. F. Kuang.

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

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

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

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

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

This book is half mystery, half puzzle and wholly a delight

Compelling, entertaining and addictive. The Atlas Six is academic Darwinism: survival of the smartest with a healthy dose of magic

Coolly horrific, brilliantly brainy and utterly compelling

Sign me up for anything she writes

Olivie Blake is the internationally 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 My Mechanical Romance and Twelfth Knight . She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, goblin prince/toddler and rescue pit bull.