The Shadowed Sun

I loved this book immensely, more so than The Killing Moon, it's predecessor. It tackles deeper, darker issues, such as incest, abuse, and rape. It's not a direct sequel; it takes place ten years after Moon and a few of the characters recur in this volume. It's the same universe, though, with the same dreaming magic for healing and ending life. The city-state where the action took place in Moon has been conquered by the city-state it intended to conquer. There are all sorts of political machinations among the conquerors and the conquered. And somehow through the darkness and politics, I found myself completely enrapt in the lives of the main characters. It's a shame this book wasn't nominated for awards, as its predecessor was. I thought it was written better and the magic used and described better, though this latter part is probably because I didn't need the first half of the book to learn it as I did in Moon.

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