so so good

It was so easy to immerse in Rebecca's world of magic, Crow God, the powerful and the outcasts, thoroughly enjoyed it. I don't mind too many threads left hanging for that is what life is anyway- an unresolved chapter. Having said that, when's the second book coming? 😉😊

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Epic and interesting

Really interesting world building and good characters. Good story with varied spred. Really a likable and good book. I'm looking forward to the next.

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Loved the book!

Bought book 2 immediately and ordered a printed copy.
Audio could have been crisper. Some actors were stiff and a few bad line-reads here and there could have been re-recorded. But loved most of the voiceacting. But I suspect this book is even better printed and not as a recorded piece.

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absolutely stunning

the story and world building is the best I've read in a while. so beautiful and gripping, a love letter to indigenous, black and queer identities

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Great start of a new fantasy series

Rebecca Roanhorse has vindicated her place as one of the most beloved fantasy-authors of her time with this fantastic start to a new fantasy series. Where I felt her urban fantasy work didn't stand out too much from the crowd, Black Sun is deserving of the title of fantasy epic.
From the vicerally gripping opening-chapter, until the edge-of-my-seat-finale, I was completely transported into the wonderful foreign world of Tova, and its memorable characters.
With its multiple POV's, Black Sun sets up a broad scope of the world, and a multifacetted conflict that I already know will only lead to tragedy in the end. Still I couldn't help but get equally attachted to Naranpa, Okoa, Xiala and Serapio, each of them being destinct, fleshed out, and likable in their own way characters.
I can safely say that Black Sun is going to make it into my top 3 fantasy novels of 2020, and I hate that I have to wait a year for book 2 to arrive. Highly recommend to all fans of epic fantasy!

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Amazing

Absolutely amazing, I couldn't put it down. The suspense, the worldbuilding, interesting characters, ritual magic and great narrators, are all what held my attention. Can't wait for the second installment.

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Good character development

I've just finished this audio book and it's certainly left me eager for the next. I did struggle to get into it to start with, but I think that's just how it is for me with several stories running at once and so many new names to remember.

The main characters drew me in and I was rooting for them, and the plot unfolds nicely. The characters and their relationships were not stuck in the stereotypes we are so often exposed to, and they were developed well.

The narration was good, though Serapio's speed of speech changed dramatically between narrators. This may have been so the female narrator could distinguish between her characters, which is important, but it stood out to me. A small thing though.

Looking forward to the next.

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Excellent book

I loved this book. It had me gripped from the start. Book 2 ordered immediately. I can't recommend it enough.

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A slow-paced clash of clans and religions

The story is told from the different points of view of quite interesting and varied characters. Yet the plot and the pace are too slow and anticlimactic, even the ending is predictable and doesn't allow the main characters to actually interact, except marginally. A sad feeling of inescapable doom pervades the novel. It definitely feels like a first part of a longer story, no tying up of loose ends, and some characters seem abandoned in a limbo. The audiobook narrators are all brilliant.

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Brilliant

I loved this book, it is so completely 'me'. I love other worlds, magic and otherworldly beasts, which this book has and describes in beautiful detail. Also, I love that the reader is never sure if the main characters are 'good' or 'bad' or just flawed and human like us. I found it really refreshing that there are openly gay and bisexual characters in a fantasy novel and that there is also a third gender in the Meridian continent bayeki with xe/xir pronouns just casually referred to and they are accepted in high ranking roles in the Celestial Tower in Tova. I cannot wait for the next instalment.

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