2024 Book #165
Title: Black Sun Author: Rebecca Roanhorse Genre: Fantasy, Historical, LGBTQIA+ Series: Between Earth and Sky, Book 1
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.
Rating: 4.5 ⭐
Quick thoughts: the way i love serapio and xiala so fucking much 😭😭😭. plot? excellent. characters? excellent (mostly 😅). political intrigue? on point. the way i don't even are if i'm rooting for the villain here, i'll own that.
