The fate of the city rested in the hands of a vengeful god, and the Watchers legacy had died in one fell swoop on a single day. The outlying cities of Meridian are under the rule of Tova and are forbidden to worship other gods after signing the Treaty of Hokaia, and the Teek people live on their islands and mostly keep to themselves.ĭid you get all that? Good, because it’s all about to change. A faction of the clan of Carrion Crow has spent years plotting revenge for the slaughter at the Night of Knives.

Everyone in Tova who isn’t a member a Sky Made is a Dry Earther, usually living in the mostly lawless and almost subterranean Coyote’s Maw. The Watchers are made up of the rulers of each of the Sky Made clans (Carrion Crow, Water Strider, Golden Eagle, and Winged Serpent), with the Sun Priest as the final authority. I reviewed Book 1 back in August 2021, but here’s a quick-and-dirty summary of the world that Roanhorse has created. And other cities are moving ahead with their plan to conquer the crown jewel of Meridian and are just now finding out that the Crow God’s human vessel – who was supposed to die killing the Sun Priest – is very much alive.Īnd everyone is asking themselves the same thing: now what? Again.) Xiala the Teek is far from home in a strange city and heartbroken at losing Serapio. Okoa the crow-rider finds himself in the presence of Serapio, the returned Crow God who might bring the clan of Carrion Crow back into power (or get them all killed by the other clans. At the start of Book 2, the former Sun Priest Naranpa has survived a coup and finds herself back in Coyote’s Maw with the mob-boss brother she thought she’d left behind years ago. Rebecca Roanhorse returns us to Meridian, the fantasy version of Pre-Columbian Americas in the second book of her “Between Earth and Sky” series.īook 1 ended with the slaughter of the entire ruling body of the city of Tova. Here a little while, bright with promise, before we burn away.” – Obregi Book of Flowers

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