Hello friends! This month's book is Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.
Content Warning!!! Before reading this book please be aware it contains contains situations and subjects related to: alcohol and drug use, domestic abuse, eye injury, homophobia, murder, ritual scarring, poison, sexual abuse, suicide, and violence.
Summary:
"A god will return
When the earth and sky converge
Under the black sun
In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world.
Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man’s mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, the passenger, Serapio, is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain." - Summary from the paperback edition of Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse.
Pre-Read Thoughts:
We are very excited to read another Rebecca Roanhorse book. We loved her book Trail of Lightning, which we read a few years ago here at Shelf Explored Book Club. We're ready for another one of Roanhorse's adventures. We are also very glad to be going back to a fantasy after the intensity that was Mirrorland!
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