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Song of Gods Duet #2
Seaswept
There is blood drying on the floor of Shell’s Tavern.
Cicerine and Maelwen have found strength in one another, but the threads between them pull taut in the face of a devastating blow. Navigating grief amidst the wreckage of a brutal conflict, they struggle to balance what they have gained with what they have lost. With the crew of the Sea Song on the water and Shell at their backs, they prepare to stand against an evil which threatens them all.
Meanwhile, Father Farragen’s insidious quest for power brings him face to face with his dark origins and the new world he hopes to create. He and the Crone grapple for power in the capital city of Athydis as casualties multiply in their wake.
But Idyth is not the only God who threatens to rise from the past.
Across the sea and throughout the continent, heroes are forged. Through ancient texts and forgotten magics, buried truths and shameful secrets, Maelwen and Cicerine unravel a tangled history, hoping to find a future for the people they love.
Cicerine and Maelwen have found strength in one another, but the threads between them pull taut in the face of a devastating blow. Navigating grief amidst the wreckage of a brutal conflict, they struggle to balance what they have gained with what they have lost. With the crew of the Sea Song on the water and Shell at their backs, they prepare to stand against an evil which threatens them all.
Meanwhile, Father Farragen’s insidious quest for power brings him face to face with his dark origins and the new world he hopes to create. He and the Crone grapple for power in the capital city of Athydis as casualties multiply in their wake.
But Idyth is not the only God who threatens to rise from the past.
Across the sea and throughout the continent, heroes are forged. Through ancient texts and forgotten magics, buried truths and shameful secrets, Maelwen and Cicerine unravel a tangled history, hoping to find a future for the people they love.
528 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 31, 2024
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January 12, 2025
5 Stars
Seaswept by my new favourite author Heather Nix! Where to start? Picking up after the events of Woodborn (first book), this book plunged deep into a world of pirates, gods, and magic. This extraordinary finale to the Song of Gods Duet, this queer high-fantasy duology pommeled me with powerful emotions and vivid world-building.
I love how the author blended action, introspection and romance in each chapter, thus, the story feeling even and not bloated. The world-building! The world-building was just phenomenal! The glittering seas, the dingy Konidas, the witchs’ tower, the capital’s chapel, the tension-filled encounters with gods, every scene feels alive with detail. Plus! With the tight pacing?
I drew in a deep breath by the end of each chapter not knowing I was holding my breath.
Heather Nix has crafted something truly special, unforgettable and I can’t recommend it enough especially to the queer fantasy fans.
Seaswept by my new favourite author Heather Nix! Where to start? Picking up after the events of Woodborn (first book), this book plunged deep into a world of pirates, gods, and magic. This extraordinary finale to the Song of Gods Duet, this queer high-fantasy duology pommeled me with powerful emotions and vivid world-building.
I love how the author blended action, introspection and romance in each chapter, thus, the story feeling even and not bloated. The world-building! The world-building was just phenomenal! The glittering seas, the dingy Konidas, the witchs’ tower, the capital’s chapel, the tension-filled encounters with gods, every scene feels alive with detail. Plus! With the tight pacing?
I drew in a deep breath by the end of each chapter not knowing I was holding my breath.
Heather Nix has crafted something truly special, unforgettable and I can’t recommend it enough especially to the queer fantasy fans.
August 14, 2024
Stunning!! Couldn’t have asked for a better piece of art!
This book…wow. Seriously, just wow. It had everything. Is my heart a little broken? Yes. But is it one of the best books I’ve ever read? Also yes. High stakes, high fantasy, queer characters, honestly I could not have asked for a more fulfilling piece of work. My only complaint is that the story is over!
This book…wow. Seriously, just wow. It had everything. Is my heart a little broken? Yes. But is it one of the best books I’ve ever read? Also yes. High stakes, high fantasy, queer characters, honestly I could not have asked for a more fulfilling piece of work. My only complaint is that the story is over!
August 7, 2024
WHY IS IT OVER?! 😭😭
This series is what my gay dnd loving heart needed, and the prose is quality. The voices are strong and the environment rich. I loved my time here.
This series is what my gay dnd loving heart needed, and the prose is quality. The voices are strong and the environment rich. I loved my time here.
July 14, 2024
Seaswept is the perfect continuation and ending to a stunning queer, fantasy duology. Leaning heavier into the pirate side of life as the title suggests, the same POVs to what readers are used to from Woodborn are picked up.
Heather's emotional and evocative writing continues to amaze, with more casual gender equality and analysis, women supporting and uplifting women, hard-hitting themes of death and grief, and truly breathtaking scenes of love played out across the pages.
Magic and power-hungry forces come to a head between Idyth and his pennyway obsession and the Crone and her search for all witchkind's power, when the rest of the old Gods are dragged into a battle no one was ready for. But there's no telling if they're ready to wake from their ages of slumber and deal in petty woodborn, seaborn and mortal issues -- even with the God Idyth supposedly back from the dead and living through zealot Farragen.
Heather's emotional and evocative writing continues to amaze, with more casual gender equality and analysis, women supporting and uplifting women, hard-hitting themes of death and grief, and truly breathtaking scenes of love played out across the pages.
Magic and power-hungry forces come to a head between Idyth and his pennyway obsession and the Crone and her search for all witchkind's power, when the rest of the old Gods are dragged into a battle no one was ready for. But there's no telling if they're ready to wake from their ages of slumber and deal in petty woodborn, seaborn and mortal issues -- even with the God Idyth supposedly back from the dead and living through zealot Farragen.
August 11, 2024
Reading this high fantasy novel that is so unapologetically queer, sexy and compelling has been one of the biggest highlights of my year. While I am sad this duology is over, it was the gift that kept on giving and I can’t wait to read more from this author.
September 3, 2024
Seaswept is a spellbinding, emotionally charged story. Book 1in the series, Woodborn, set the bar very high but this has left me breathless. A quote from the book summarises it perfectly, I think. "...things feel fraught with tension and perched on a dangerous precipice."
It is a high stakes fantasy story, with stolen magics used to boost reach, impact and consequence. The tension just builds and builds through each chapter and the continued use of the same first person POV's seen in Woodborn make the feelings of suspense and chew-your-nails anticipation so immediate that even seat edges have been left behind .
There is a theme of home too. Home as a place or a person or a family, and what people can be driven to do to protect it. While there is desperation, there is also a sense of resolution and grounding, of finding your place when and where you least expect it. And while there are deaths, there are also happily ever afters, including one I feared could never happen.
The majority of the characters are morally grey. I was constantly having to consider 'ends' versus 'means' in so many actions, which challenged me as reader and a person. I think most of the characters in Seaswept are likeable and relatable so their machinations can be supported, which I think is a tribute to the author's skills.
Again, I recommend checking the content warnings on the author's page.
This is an exceptional story. It will stay with me for a long time and be the measure I regularly use against other books.
It is a high stakes fantasy story, with stolen magics used to boost reach, impact and consequence. The tension just builds and builds through each chapter and the continued use of the same first person POV's seen in Woodborn make the feelings of suspense and chew-your-nails anticipation so immediate that even seat edges have been left behind .
There is a theme of home too. Home as a place or a person or a family, and what people can be driven to do to protect it. While there is desperation, there is also a sense of resolution and grounding, of finding your place when and where you least expect it. And while there are deaths, there are also happily ever afters, including one I feared could never happen.
The majority of the characters are morally grey. I was constantly having to consider 'ends' versus 'means' in so many actions, which challenged me as reader and a person. I think most of the characters in Seaswept are likeable and relatable so their machinations can be supported, which I think is a tribute to the author's skills.
Again, I recommend checking the content warnings on the author's page.
This is an exceptional story. It will stay with me for a long time and be the measure I regularly use against other books.
September 24, 2024
IM DEVASTATED THAT THIS IS OVER!!!!
This duo-ology is EASILY one of my favorite book series EVER! Not just in this genre but ever. I am currently re-reading the first one for the 5th time to annotate it and then i will read this one again to annotate as well.
Seaswept is a breathtaking, transfixing, hypnotique unputdownable fantasy novel. That somehow contains, Pirates, mermaids, fae of all kinds, poisonous hot witches, ACTUALLY GOOD SAPPHIC SPICE SCENES, Trans and nobinary rep, and so much more, and YET incorporates this all in a way that doesnt feel forced or unnatural.
This needs to be a D&D Campaign ASAP! This series is just too good to end here.
I CANNOT stop thinking about these characters! These are my babies! I have laughed, lusted, cried and bled with these characters. These characters feel like friends. They dont feel fictional. I have fallen in love with them all. Who needs book boyfriends when you can have book mommies and nonbinary hotties?!
The Plot!!! - I dont want to give too much away but lets just say that i was reading and ACTUALLY pacing during multiple points in book 1 and 2!
I recommend this series all the time. and now with this new addition its gonna be even more.
This duo-ology is EASILY one of my favorite book series EVER! Not just in this genre but ever. I am currently re-reading the first one for the 5th time to annotate it and then i will read this one again to annotate as well.
Seaswept is a breathtaking, transfixing, hypnotique unputdownable fantasy novel. That somehow contains, Pirates, mermaids, fae of all kinds, poisonous hot witches, ACTUALLY GOOD SAPPHIC SPICE SCENES, Trans and nobinary rep, and so much more, and YET incorporates this all in a way that doesnt feel forced or unnatural.
This needs to be a D&D Campaign ASAP! This series is just too good to end here.
I CANNOT stop thinking about these characters! These are my babies! I have laughed, lusted, cried and bled with these characters. These characters feel like friends. They dont feel fictional. I have fallen in love with them all. Who needs book boyfriends when you can have book mommies and nonbinary hotties?!
The Plot!!! - I dont want to give too much away but lets just say that i was reading and ACTUALLY pacing during multiple points in book 1 and 2!
I recommend this series all the time. and now with this new addition its gonna be even more.
August 16, 2024
A rich and wonderful ride to the finish!
Heather writes from characters’ POV in a way many other authors don’t seem able to; she makes them feel like real living people with totally different voices. I always get so invested in her books, which take you to the highest highs and lowest lows; from incredibly hot spice to beautiful romance to world-ending magic and back again. She writes emotions as they are, with a deep understanding of both grief and joy. And I cried for like 45 mins with this one.
And can I say–I’m very excited to read a fantasy book without a single traditional fae or elf or dwarf or mermaid! The casual genderlessness of so many characters is incredibly refreshing to me, as a non-binary person. The variety of creatures and the fleshed-out-ness of the world immerses me and doesn’t let me go til the last, satisfying page.
As Billie Eilish said, “So when can I hear the next one?”
Heather writes from characters’ POV in a way many other authors don’t seem able to; she makes them feel like real living people with totally different voices. I always get so invested in her books, which take you to the highest highs and lowest lows; from incredibly hot spice to beautiful romance to world-ending magic and back again. She writes emotions as they are, with a deep understanding of both grief and joy. And I cried for like 45 mins with this one.
And can I say–I’m very excited to read a fantasy book without a single traditional fae or elf or dwarf or mermaid! The casual genderlessness of so many characters is incredibly refreshing to me, as a non-binary person. The variety of creatures and the fleshed-out-ness of the world immerses me and doesn’t let me go til the last, satisfying page.
As Billie Eilish said, “So when can I hear the next one?”
July 31, 2024
Seaswept is the perfect ending to this queer, high-fantasy duology. This book leans a bit heavier into the pirate life, but still captures Cicerine and Maelwen love. There is definitely a mystery component as well as Cicerine and Maelwen work to uncover how to rid of the evil in this world and ensure their friends and loved ones have a safe place to exist.
The spice is fantastic and Maelwen might be one of my top 10 favorite possessive characters. You don't normally see this and Heather has truly bent gender norms in the book. I loved it so much! I laughed, cried, and will never forget the "magic-wielding demon priests."
The spice is fantastic and Maelwen might be one of my top 10 favorite possessive characters. You don't normally see this and Heather has truly bent gender norms in the book. I loved it so much! I laughed, cried, and will never forget the "magic-wielding demon priests."
December 30, 2024
What can I say?
I loved this booked and characters. It has a lot of twists and turns that I was definitely not expecting, and I even cried, and mind you, I barely cried, but the author decided to rip my heart off my chest.
It’s an amazing adventure I recommend. The pacing can be a bit slow, and it can a be a complex plot, but it’s sooo worth it.
I loved this booked and characters. It has a lot of twists and turns that I was definitely not expecting, and I even cried, and mind you, I barely cried, but the author decided to rip my heart off my chest.
It’s an amazing adventure I recommend. The pacing can be a bit slow, and it can a be a complex plot, but it’s sooo worth it.
May 2, 2025
Awesome
This was a great ending arc to the series. The action, friendship, bittersweet moments, Etc. You know a book is good when you keep reading just to find out what happens next, even at the sacrifice of sleep. Thank you for sharing your world with us. If you decide to write another book involving this group, I’d certainly be happy to read it.
This was a great ending arc to the series. The action, friendship, bittersweet moments, Etc. You know a book is good when you keep reading just to find out what happens next, even at the sacrifice of sleep. Thank you for sharing your world with us. If you decide to write another book involving this group, I’d certainly be happy to read it.
September 20, 2024
Almost DNF :/ which was very disappointing because of how much I loved the first book
November 21, 2024
Just like the first one, this book nourished my soul and broke my heart. This will forever be one of my favorite duologies.
November 25, 2024
thrilling
Epic tales of good and evil, that kept you wanting more. Filled with love, loss, pain and joy. Characters that imbue humanity at its core.
Epic tales of good and evil, that kept you wanting more. Filled with love, loss, pain and joy. Characters that imbue humanity at its core.
February 26, 2025
This was a great duology. I really enjoyed the story along with the characters.
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