Black Sun cover

Black Sun

2020464 pages
Mood
Whimsical, Wry
Protagonist
Astrologer Thelma Balfour herself, decoding sun-sign.
Parental Rating
PG
Pace
Slow

Themes & atmosphere

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In the holy city of Tova, a sun priest prepares for the winter solstice, a sea captain ferries a blind passenger toward the harbor, and an old prophecy quietly counts down. First in Between Earth and Sky.

Multiple novels share this title. The most commonly searched is Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse (2020), the first book in her Between Earth and Sky series, an epic fantasy drawing on pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures.

Rebecca Roanhorse's Between Earth and Sky trilogy has three books: Black Sun, Fevered Star, and Mirrored Heavens. The series is complete.

Black Sun is 238 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.

At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, Black Sun takes most readers 4 to 5 hours to finish.

Black Sun is a standalone novel by Thelma Balfour, not part of a series.

Black Sun is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.

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