# 63 Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse

It is nice to read a fantasy is not the usual pseudo European setting.  A framework of Mesoamerica is used as a framework for this story. This is the first book of a new series so there is an ending but the main characters story arcs are started and come to a change point for the Sun Priest Naranpa and Serapio a vessel of the Crow god.  Naranpa is not from the usual caste to be a Sun Priest so there is lots of politics about any changes she wishes to enact in the city.  Serapio has been raised from birth to bring vengeance for the Carrion Crow clan from the Night of Knives that decimated the clan.  Most of the book is his travel to capital city Tova where he meets a lady captain of the Teek people. Xiala, as a captain is liked for her skills but feared far more for being of the secretive Teek. The story does give some background on the Teek and Xiala does see the power that Serapio carries when no one else does.   The book is the setting of the overall arc to the series and it is interesting enough that I certainly want to see what happens after the eclipse when Serapio arrives to the ceremony. 

 

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