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Casting the Bones #3
Rookwar
Led by the exiled Turn, the Crow city of Lune has fallen to the invading force of Ravens. But the evil Moravici have not yet been defeated, and as the difficulties of controlling an occupied city intensify, the Moravici launch a direct attack on Sol itself, violating the sacred process of death and raising corpses to obscene life – corpses with a taste for living flesh.
Badly injured in the battle for Lune, Turn struggles to hold onto her sense of purpose. But when she displays a new and potentially dangerous power, she is driven to embark on a dangerous journey for the Rook city of Calvaria, where the truth behind the rising of the Moravici may ultimately lie.
As ultimate war between the three tribes looms on the horizon, Turn and her friends must fight alone to save them – and the twin worlds of Sol and Nicht – from certain destruction. And what’s at stake may not be only those things, but the fabric of reality itself.
Badly injured in the battle for Lune, Turn struggles to hold onto her sense of purpose. But when she displays a new and potentially dangerous power, she is driven to embark on a dangerous journey for the Rook city of Calvaria, where the truth behind the rising of the Moravici may ultimately lie.
As ultimate war between the three tribes looms on the horizon, Turn and her friends must fight alone to save them – and the twin worlds of Sol and Nicht – from certain destruction. And what’s at stake may not be only those things, but the fabric of reality itself.
285 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 1, 2015
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Sunny Moraine
19 books243 followersSunny Moraine is—among many other things—the author of the novella Your Shadow Half Remains, published by Tor Nightfire. Their debut short fiction collection Singing With All My Skin and Bone was released in 2016 and their short stories have been published in Tor.com, Uncanny, Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and Nightmare. An occasional podcaster/narrator/voice actor, they are the writer, producer, and lead actor of the serial horror drama podcast Gone, which wrapped up its first season in January 2018 and released a second season in 2022. For more info, please see their website at sunnymoraine.com.
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January 22, 2016
Somehow I missed that the final book in the trilogy had already been released!
What I love best are the complexity of everyone's motivations—while there are "good guys" and "bad guys", everyone believes they are doing the right thing, and there are a lot of blurry lines between right and wrong. People can do awful things in the name of the greater good. In that vein, I would have liked to maybe have seen more moral questioning of Turn's newest ability, but then when you look at the shape of the whole novel, the whole trilogy, Turn just doesn't have the emotional or spiritual energy to take that on top of everything else. It's satisfyingly realistic in that way: change, war, and leadership all take their toll, and we really get to see that here. Overall, it's splendidly satisfying.
What I love best are the complexity of everyone's motivations—while there are "good guys" and "bad guys", everyone believes they are doing the right thing, and there are a lot of blurry lines between right and wrong. People can do awful things in the name of the greater good. In that vein, I would have liked to maybe have seen more moral questioning of Turn's newest ability, but then when you look at the shape of the whole novel, the whole trilogy, Turn just doesn't have the emotional or spiritual energy to take that on top of everything else. It's satisfyingly realistic in that way: change, war, and leadership all take their toll, and we really get to see that here. Overall, it's splendidly satisfying.
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