Black Sun

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Black Sun, Rebecca Roanhorse. I really liked this - extremely cinematic, lots of great detail in the locations and costuming (and the food and the boats and the creatures...). I love tourist sff, that feeling of getting to visit somewhere cool, and Tova, in particular, had this fabulous "Mesa Verde meets Machu Picchu, but alive and even bigger" vibe, two of the very coolest places I have ever been. It is very much the first book of a trilogy so it's hard to speak to what I'll think of the overall plot, but, somewhat unusually for a multiple-POV book, I actually liked and was interested in all of the viewpoint characters. I would like to get to see them all do a little more acting instead of reacting/being moved through the plot by other people's choices, but that seems like what this book could be setting up. Vague spoiler: And one character seems set up for a "so you've survived the thing you didn't think you would survive, Now What" arc, which I would definitely be into if it's done well. I have not seen a title for the next one yet, so, to play the title guessing game, maybe something like "Swift Waters", and then the third one is something about earth or stone?