Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
I was really looking forward to this one but then it came out, and I realized I wasn’t sure I remembered the previous book enough. So naturally, I waited a few more months, didn’t reread the other books in the series and then decided to read it. The funny thing is, I feel like I did a decent enough job of remembering where book 1 had ended but was at a loss for what happened in book 2. I jogged my memory with some spoiler […]
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
The first two books in Rebecca Roanhorse’s Between Earth and Sky series, Black Sun and Fevered Star, are two of my favorite books of the last five years. I’ve proselytized these books so many times, and now, at last, I can tell people the end is worth it. Mirrored Heavens is a tense read. There were many points where I had to put my tablet down and pace in circles because otherwise I would scream just to relieve the pressure. This is exactly the kind of […]
Fevered Star (Between Earth and Sky, #2) by Rebecca Roanhorse
30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 26/30 I’m sad that I’m rating this three stars, but it’s representative of my experience listening to the audiobook. If/when I re-read, I think I will like it better. Also, when I see where the story is going in book three. Sad face. My biggest takeaway from this book is that I found it extremely difficult to make everything that was happening cohere into a story in my mind. Everything felt so disconnected, and so I was […]
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
The tl:dr version of this review is: I could not put it down. It was so, so good. Very much a middle book, but a very entertaining middle book. Fevered Star starts with a murder. Far from the chaos in Tova, Lord Balam murders a thief so that he can walk through dreams. Serapio wakes up with a wound he cannot heal and uncertain of who he is now, having expected to die at the Convergence. Naranpa wakes up in a tomb, back from the […]
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Black Sun is one of those books that for some reason I don’t read because I know I will really like it. And then I finally read it and I’m mad at myself both for not reading it sooner and also for having read it at all because now I’ll never read it again for the first time. My brain is a weird place. I have an arc of Fevered Star, which has driven me to finally breaking the glass on Black Sun. I listened […]
Black Sun (Between Earth and Sky, #1) by Rebecca Roanhorse
This shit is why we need diverse books, because this was really good, and I’ve never read a fantasy like it before, and that was fun! Black Sun is an epic fantasy based, for a change, not on a white medieval-type world, but on the pre-Columbian Americas. It is also chock full of diverse types of people in every way, and it was all no big deal, which was great. We have three main characters for most of the book, and a fourth is added about […]
