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Black Sun
Rebecca Roanhorse
2020 · Fantasy
How it reads
Black Sun is fantasy (epic fantasy, specifically), and its dominant mood is dark. It goes to difficult places and doesn't look away. It moves fast: plot-driven and hard to put down, the kind of book that carries you along even when you're tired.
It's set in an invented world, in no single period, told in the third person across several viewpoints. Its central concerns are power and politics, identity and faith. In weight it sits in the middle: substantial without being heavy going.
It opens a series. The ending is left open, for you to argue about. It's moderately known: read by plenty of people, but not a household name.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something dark
- you want a book that pulls you through
- you like disappearing into an invented world
Maybe not if…
- you need something cosy, heartwarming or funny
- you want dense, lingering prose
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- fantasy
- Author gender
- female
- Author experience
- established
- Setting: place
- fictional world
- Setting: time
- timeless or multiple
- Mood / feeling
- dark
- Pace
- fast paced
- Tone / weight
- balanced
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- third person, several viewpoints
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- moderately known
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- power and politics, identity, faith
- Ending style
- ambiguous
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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