I received this ARC from Edelweiss for an honest review. “Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.”
“We are but fevered stars,” he intoned, like an orator on a stage. I absolutely love this world, and how the pieces are being reassembled from a long-standing structure being shattered, and who takes up power in the vacuum.īut again the plotline was mostly a movement of people into various positions and them trying to figure out what comes next, and it was kinda…boring? I was very, very bored throughout most of it.īut I will stick around for book 3, because I want to see how everything turns out! They all felt…very flat, even Xiala and Naranpa, who are my absolute favorites.ĭespite my frustration in this installation’s lack of plot, the worldbuilding was truly spectacular, as was the opening of the world to show the aftermath of the Ending and what comes next. In place of character arcs, I felt that even though there was space (and so many pages) to give the characters a chance to heal/catch their breaths or recover from the trauma of what had happened, this just…didn’t happen? They all kinda ended book two in roughly the same place emotionally and physically (not geographically, because travel) as before. Instead of character arcs or motivation, there was preparation for the final showdown, whatever that might be. Book two gave me people struggling to get their footing and then a series of long chapters of these characters being maneuvered into position to prepare for book three. I felt it suffered greatly from being a second book in the trilogy-a waystation between points.īook one brought the problem and the destruction of the world. My views are definitely in the minority here just after its release date, however, I was hoping for more to this incredible world than what I read. I’m disappointed, since Black Sun was one of my favorite reads of 2020. If you cannot save a broken crow, it is a mercy to put him down. When that happens, you must choose the collective over the individual. When injured, crows may become feral, a danger to their own flock.
And sea captain Xiala finds herself adrift, again, struggling for a place to land. As Serapio and Naranpa struggle to regain a sense of free will in the midst of their eternal struggle, they find themselves at war both with their godlike destiny and the earth-bound humans who wish to use the avatars’ powers for their own purposes. Gods walk the earth again-but without instructions for their human avatars. The city of Tova is in the midst of political upheaval.
Do what duty requires, and you will always be in the right.”
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