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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
Series: Between Earth and Sky (Book #1 of 3)
Genre: Fantasy, High fantasy
Pages: 464 pages
Published: 13th October 2020 by Gallery / Saga Press
Fascinating world-building and riveting narrative. Black Sun was my first venture in Rebecca Roanhorse’s works, and it certainly won’t be the last. …
Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Actual rating: 3.5 stars
Representation is so important in fiction.. It’s much easier to sink into a character’s story when they resemble you in some way. For centuries there was very little healthy representation of anyone outside of heterosexual white males of European descent. Characters who fell outside of these restrictions tended to be only secondary characters, and were often portrayed as two-dimensional caricatures of the race or sex or religion they represented. There were exceptions, of course, but they were few and far between, and were often authored by women using male pseudonyms. That still left many groups utterly unrepresented, though. Thankfully, in the past few decades this lack has been addressed, and the variety of representation in literature has skyrocketed. …