The Shadowed Sun, N. K. Jemisin
The Shadowed Sun, N. K. Jemisin
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The Shadowed Sun

Author: N. K. Jemisin

Narrator: Sarah Zimmerman

Unabridged: 17 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Orbit

Published: 06/12/2012

Synopsis

In the final book of NYT bestselling and three time Hugo-Award winning author N. K. Jemisin's Dreamblood Duology, a priestess and an exiled prince must join together to free the city of dreams from imperial rule.

Gujaareh, the city of dreams, suffers under the imperial rule of the Kisuati Protectorate. A city where the only law was peace now knows violence and oppression. And nightmares: a mysterious and deadly plague haunts the citizens of Gujaareh, dooming the infected to die screaming in their sleep. Trapped between dark dreams and cruel overlords, the people yearn to rise up -- but Gujaareh has known peace for too long.

Someone must show them the way.

Hope lies with two outcasts: the first woman ever allowed to join the dream goddess' priesthood and an exiled prince who longs to reclaim his birthright. Together, they must resist the Kisuati occupation and uncover the source of the killing dreams. . . before Gujaareh is lost forever.

About N. K. Jemisin

N(ora). K. Jemisin is an author of speculative fiction short stories and novels who lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has won the Hugo Award for best novel (The Fifth Season); been shortlisted for the Crawford, Gemmell Morningstar, and Tiptree Awards; and been nominated for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She also won a Locus Award for Best First Novel (The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms) as well as multiple Romantic Times Reviewer’s Choice Awards.Jemisin's short fiction has been published in pro markets such as Clarkesworld, Postscripts, Strange Horizons, and Baen’s Universe; semipro markets such as Ideomancer and Abyss & Apex; and podcast markets and print anthologies. Her first six novels, a novella, and a short story collection are available from Orbit Books. Jemisin is a member of the Altered Fluid writing group. In addition to writing, she is a counseling psychologist and educator (specializing in career counseling and student development), a sometime hiker and biker, and a political/feminist/anti-racist blogger.N. K.'s stories include The City Born Great and The Fifth Season.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Samantha on May 05, 2020

TW: incest via rape; child abuse I enjoyed this installment more than the first. It was interesting to see the long term political effects of book one, as this book happens 10 years after and mostly follows the political machinations of the characters. It also features new main characters, with some......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 16, 2017

The second book in the Dreamblood duo continues on in a tradition of immersive Egyptian-like settings, although the culture is still uniquely Jemisin's: a city built on the idea of peace, magic users that harvest and gift dreams, a plague of dreams harming so many people, and a war in the desert. The......more

Goodreads review by Khalid on October 01, 2024

The Shadowed Sun continues the amazing Dreamblood duology concluding events with a killer of an ending. We follow events 10 years after the Sunset Prince's failed folly in questing for immortality and we're treated to an amazingly rich and verdant world of lore and dreaming magic. The writing follows......more

Goodreads review by CC on January 23, 2023

I haven't expected this to be such an emotional read. It's been almost two years since I read the first book in the duology, The Killing Moon, but the dream world has aged well. The magic, the politics, the religion and culture all came back to me immediately after I started the first chapter, which......more

Goodreads review by Bethany (Beautifully Bookish Bethany) on October 10, 2023

4.5 stars rounded up This was a RIDE! Set 10 years after the events of book 1, The Shadowed Sun follows a new cast of characters navigating a complicated blend of politics and religion as an outbreak of deadly nightmares breaks out. I don't want to say too much about this but it was an emotionally in......more

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