![]() She is to deliver a mysterious, blind man named Serapio to the city. Already mistrusted because she is Teek and a woman aboard a ship, Xiala faces a challenge getting her crew to make for Tova in the timeframe given by her employer. Basically, Xiala is a Teek captain aboard a ship sailing for Tova. ![]() There are a couple of sets of main characters, and Roanhorse doesn’t tell the narrative quite in a linear fashion, so you need to pay attention to the chapter headings to keep the timeline straight. Black Sun is a book about apotheosis, about betrayal and revenge, about politics and pragmatism. As she says in her acknowledgments, she wanted to challenge the idea that pre-Columbian Indigenous cultures lacked civilizations worthy of such epic tales (if you want more info on that, check out my review of 1491). ![]() In this case, Roanhorse has drawn on pre-Columbian America for her inspiration. ![]() I’m having a pretty good year for epic fantasy! First Beaulieu’s Song of the Shattered Sands, then Suri’s The Jasmine Throne, and now Rebecca Roanhorse’s Black Sun bringing me fantasy stories in worlds not inspired by medieval Europe. ![]()
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