![]() ![]() A book that takes the darkness – and a very real darkness at that, as Seraphina’s Lament is inspired by Holodomor – and finds beauty in all the broken bits. This is one of those books that no matter how you choose to define grimdark (and I am not stepping into that debate here) falls within those boundaries. Since then I have lost track of the number of times that I have reread this book, and each and every time I fall in love with it all over again. The day my copy of Seraphina’s Lament arrived (sometime back in 2019 before I had even conceived of this blog), I sat down and devoured it twice within the space of twenty four hours. Paths will converge, the battle for the Sunset Lands has shifted, and now humanity itself is at stake.įirst, you must break before you can become. But something ominous is calling people to Lord’s Reach and the very nature of magic itself is changing. In a fight for the soul of the nation, everyone is a player. In the city of Lord’s Reach, Seraphina, a slave with unique talents, sets in motion a series of events that will change everything. ![]() In the west, borders slam shut in the face of waves of refugees, dooming all of those trying to flee to slow starvation, or a future in forced labor camps. Drought holds the east as famine ravages the farmlands. The Sunset Lands are broken, torn apart by a war of ideology paid for with the lives of the peasants. ![]()
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