#postcolonial fantasy

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This is not your life.

But it shrouds and smothers you, encasing you like an inescapable coffin. Like a smooth coffin carved from ivory, measured to your exact height, the width of your ribs, the length of each of your fingers.

You watched them craft that ivory coffin. Meticulous and careful, pieced together to fit around you like a second skin. A shining beacon of wealth in this time of hunger, savage tusks turned into a display worthy of the king in whose name they carved.

Why were you chosen? You do not rememember. You were the victim of a random lot. You were chosen as a despised criminal. You were a willing sacrifice, laying yourself bare for your king.

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Ralidya seems like a desolate place.

Underneath the surface, it is a place of collisions.

A ruthless colonising force clashes with indigenous stories of survival and violent hope. A cunning General clashes with a power-drunk priestess. And Ralidya's princess clashes with the stories told about her, with a curse darkening her lineage, a madness dwelling within her.

There is a monster in Ralidya, and they're all a part of it. Princess Eadahmisa will do whatever it takes to protect her sister from the violence of their city - she made her choice, and now she clashes with the cost of her compliance.

The balance is fragile. The arrival of their warmongering enemies and a mysterious monsterslayer threatens the balance, and the city lies ready to crumble.

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Hollow Gods & Their Hunger is a postcolonial fantasy novel following disaster characters as they navigate a world ravaged by an imperial colonising power. The land speaks in this story, and it is unspeakably angry, hungry, and hopeful.