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Amazing fantasy!

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

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I’ve had Black Sun on my radar since it was first announced, especially with how much I adored Roanhorse’s debut, Trail of Lightening. Her world building and character development always has me enthralled and I find it nigh impossible to put her books down. Black Sun was no different. Note, I read via audio, and if that’s a format that jives with your brain I highly recommend it! Black Sun follows four main protagonists – Serapio, a young man blinded and scarred who is the […]

We have become a place of long weeping

Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

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Black Sun is one of those books that for some reason I don’t read because I know I will really like it. And then I finally read it and I’m mad at myself both for not reading it sooner and also for having read it at all because now I’ll never read it again for the first time. My brain is a weird place. I have an arc of Fevered Star, which has driven me to finally breaking the glass on Black Sun. I listened […]

“I am the only storm that matters now, and there is no shelter from what I bring.” #CBRBINGO – New Series

Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse

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This shit is why we need diverse books, because this was really good, and I’ve never read a fantasy like it before, and that was fun! Black Sun is an epic fantasy based, for a change, not on a white medieval-type world, but on the pre-Columbian Americas. It is also chock full of diverse types of people in every way, and it was all no big deal, which was great. We have three main characters for most of the book, and a fourth is added about […]



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