A review by caitann
Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

5.0

4.5 rounded up! This was truly fantastic, complete with all the elements of epic fantasy that I love, but done in such a gloriously fresh way. Reading it was such a rich experience, making me so thankful for the amazing books I’ve read lately that refuse to keep epic fantasy in the medieval-European-setting-only box, helping to expand and enrich the genre SO MUCH, as the wonderful Rebecca Roanhorse herself mentions in her acknowledgments. My only qualm is that this wasn’t longer!! It was so compulsively readable, which is always excellent, but set in a world so vividly imagined that I wouldn’t have minded trading some of that easy readability for more dense detail, if only to stay lost in it a little longer. But that just means there’s so much more to come, and I can’t wait!