Readers who love Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" are sure to enjoy Dart-Thornton's books. The Washington Post reported that Nielsen Booktrack showed Dart-Thornton's newly launched fantasy title The Ill-Made Mute hitting the best-seller lists, ranked next to mainstream authors and 'serious' fiction. Technology, in one swift blow, destroyed a decades-long publishers' bias against fantasy. It demonstrated that what people were really buying was simply not reflected in the old bestseller lists, based as they were on reports from a small panel of bookshops. The reality was, people were buying fantasy - in particular, they were buying The Ill-Made Mute. This debut novel and its two sequels in the 'Bitterbynde Trilogy' went on to win fans and accolades across the globe.The Ill-Made Mute was listed on Amazon's Best, Locus Magazine's Best First Novels, the Sydney Morning Herald's Top Twenty and the Australian Publishers' Association 'Australia's Favourite Read'. The Bitterbynde Trilogy, including The Battle of Evernight, is published in many languages and distributed in more than fifty countries around the world.This paperback has a gloss finish. Cover "Armored Knights in Battle", first released 14 February, 2024.