#mirrored heavens by rebecca roanhorse

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Books Read in July

6 books is not bad considering that my minimum for this year is 2 per month.

1. "The Atlas Six" by Olivie Blake

2. "Now I Rise" by Kiersten White

3. "Bright We Burn" by Kiersten White

4. "The Prisoner’s Throne" by Holly Black

5. "Mirrored Heavens" by Rebecca Roanhorse

6. "Winter's Orbit" by Everina Maxwell

I have finished some series I started either this or last year and I'm thinking of changing how I pick my TBR for next year so I can read completed series all together. It would help with keeping track with the stories but I'm not sure how it would work unless I up my yearly goal from 25 to something else.

I also, kind of, am considering reading a series I have been avoiding like a plague for like 15 years...

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Last, current, next

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I have to assume that nobody is reading between earth and sky because it has no fandom and there is absolutely no world in which people are reading these books and then just. Being Normal about them. These books have Making Me Feral juice in them and I cannot comprehend reading them and not Getting On Tumblr about it.

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In case anyone was wondering, this stuck the ending!

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Book Haul: Preorder Edition!

Apparently 1.) I preordered quite a few books and 2.) a BUNCH of them came out in early June. Very excited for these! Now catch me not reading them for months.

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what new releases in 2024 are you looking forward to the most?

I'm probably forgetting a lot of books, but here are some of my most anticipated 2024 releases:

And here are two I have already read that are absolutely incredible:

Book titles:

Lunar Boy by Jes and Cin Wibowo

The Flicker by H.E. Edgmon

Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowland

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao

Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse

The Principle of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson

Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana

Icarus by K. Ancrum

Dear Wendy by Ann Zhao

Most Ardently by Gabe Cole Novoa

The Prospects by KT Hoffman

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Serapio, Odo Sedoh, Carrion King

Carlyle's House and Other Sketches, Virginia Woolf // pinterest // George Seferis // Goodbye Stranger, Rebecca Stead // pinterest // Anecdote of the Pig, Tory Adkisson // Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays, Molly McCully Brown // Andromache, Euripides // pinterest // pinterest // Anatomy Titus: Fall of Rome: A Shakespeare Commentary, Heiner Müller // pinterest // Eating Snake, Margaret Atwood // pinterest // Madness: A Bipolar Life, Marya Hornbacher

naranpa

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The heavens were not above but all around. God or man, his place was here.

Rebecca Roanhorse, Mirrored Heavens

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June 2024

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New Releases of June!

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Title: Between Earth and Sky

Author: Rebecca Roanhorse

Series or standalone: series

Publication year: 2020

Genres: fiction, fantasy, LGBT+, science fiction, historical fiction

Blurb: In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal...but this year, it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose song can calm the waters around her as easily as it can warp a man's mind. Her ship carries one passenger. Described as harmless, Serapio is a young man, blind, scarred, and cloaked in destiny. As Xiala well knows, when a man is described as harmless, he usually ends up being a villain.

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Read MIRRORED HEAVENS by Rebecca Roanhorse if you love avatars, armies, riddles, fucking prophesies, gods, graveyards, revenge, roasted potatoes, dreamworlds, books, the waiting game, becoming more than the abuse we endured, very special teas, broken things, blood & gore, sorcery, songs, the sea, reckoning, balance, and love freely given.

I'm really sad the trilogy is over--it feels like a hundred more stories could be told about this world... which is the sign of an amazing story.

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Serapio Carrion Crow

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(I pulled these all from Pinterest but tried my best to find the actual image sources, otherwise I linked to the pin I used - please let me know if you know the original source for these!)

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Please Read This Series

This is completely unrelated to anything I post and I know I haven't really posted here in a hot minute (I'm gonna try again I promise). But I am two books into this trilogy and the community feels tragically tiny for it on any site I'm on. I want this book series to be incredibly popular it is so beautiful. The few posts I've seen here so far, keep it up please!

Do you like fantasy? Epic fantasy with magic? Do you like queer/LGBTQ+ characters treated naturally within a fantasy world? Do you like awesome stories about gods and wars? Please read this series.

Between Earth and Sky is a series by Rebecca Roanhorse and currently all three books are available to purchase. I will say now I am not indigenous and can't comment on the accuracy of portrayal but I find her use of indigenous north and south American and Polynesian cultural influence in her worldbuilding to be soooooo refreshing in a sea of medieval/renaissance high fantasy. Not there is anything wrong with those, but it is so nice to see someone do something new and the way she describes everything I feel like I'm there, like I'm seeing these people. Rebecca's description, characterization, and overall writing is incredible in my opinion. This was the first book I haven't been able to put down since I was devouring books in high school. I struggle to remember characters in most content I consume but I do not struggle at all with this book. Every name sticks in my head and I can always remember the details of their motivations and goals.

Mild spoilers ahead!!!!!!!

The story follows Serapio and his destiny to become a god reborn, Naranpa trying to fix the corruption of Tova's leaders, however fruitlessly, and a disgraced sailing captain named Xiala, a teek woman who ferries Serapio and falls in love with him. Despite these three being the main characters, the books pull back the curtains on others such as scheming merchant lords and a matron's son trying to do his best for his clan.

There are gods fighting for power and a political power struggle between so many groups it feels dizzying in a good way. Everyone's striving for power over the city in some way or another. There is magic and a balance of elements and it honestly reminds me of the series Avaryan Rising, specifically the first book The Hall of the Mountain King by Judith Tarr in the struggle between light and dark and the push for political power. Except it doesn't have a weird pseudo-incest subplot in the second book and has actually queer characters. (Mirain and Vadin should have gotten together and I fucking stand by this)

Regarding queer/LGBTQ+ characters: Xiala is canonically bisexual, multiple characters have very fluid sexuality and it's mentioned frequently, and there are 'non-binary' characters, specifically Iktan's gender is referred to as bayeki and xe uses xe/xir pronouns. It feels so natural and accepted within the various cultures depicted.

If this interests you, then start with Black Sun. The other two books in the trilogy, Fevered Star and Mirrored Heavens are also available both in print, ebook, and audiobook formats. I admittedly have not begun the third book yet as I just purchased it, but the first two are so good that I have faith Rebecca can round off this trilogy near-perfectly.

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I've been eagerly awaiting the final book in the Between Earth and Sky series- Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse.

My copy arrived yesterday and I have time to start reading tonight! I just finished a reread of the first two books- Black Sun and Fevered Star. I forgot how worried I am for all my darlings.. this is definitly a book series that makes you love so many factions and hope that somehow all of them win even when they have conflicting goals and quite a few characters have made basically unforgivable actions to other characters.

This series is fantastic and I'm sad I can't find as much of a fanbase for it!

This series is highly recommended- epic fantasy set in a world inspired by the Indigenous Americas. These stories have a lot of heart and so many good characters!

Also, check out this cover art by John Picacio!

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DNF at 60%