In another life, she would be a servant to the Tovans.įor Xiala, she is a Teek who can use her Song to calm the waters.
She doesn’t fit in and is second-guessed at every turn, something I and many readers can relate to. For Nara, being a Sun Priest who is not Sky Made kept her at odds with her fellow priests and some of the clans. I really enjoyed this book because the main characters all seemed to have one thing in common: being seen as different when all you want to be is normal. Trained from a young age by cruel tutors, Serapio must get to Tova in time for the solstice to fulfill his destiny. After being arrested for yet another drunken brawl, she is sprung by a rich lord who wants her to deliver a mysterious stranger to Tova by the time of the Convergence, a celestial event that holds a significance for so many.Īnd then there’s Serapio, the mysterious blind man who holds the key to everything. Second, we have Xiala, a Teek sailor who is beautiful, smart and lives her life the way she wants. But Nara is reminded every day that although she is the Sun Priest, she is not Sky Made and never will be. Naranpa has big plans to become the Sun Priest, the top of the heap of priests who live in the celestial tower (the deluxe apartment in the sky, in other words).
Where the Dry Earthers are doing what they can to survive and the Sky Made (basically the rich) come to slum it with the poor. First, there’s Naranpa, a former resident of the Maw, which is basically the wrong side of Tova. In this book, we meet three main characters, each one different from the other and from the ones who know them. Black Sun is definitely one of those books, relying on pre-Colombian history and folklore to weave a story that ended in one hell of a cliffhanger. It is rare to read fantasy books that are not based on Western themes and tropes.
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