![]() ![]() The City of Dusk is, at heart, a story both about saving one’s realm and about relationships: gaining them and losing them. In the blurb included with my ARC copy, we read that, “For each realm there is a god, and for each god there is an heir.” The book follows four heirs as they attempt to save their dying realm-after the barriers between realms were closed off in the Sealing five hundred years ago-while grappling with internal struggles and the external threat of the Conjurers. Thus, fans of her Timekeeper and Scavenge the Stars series will find familiar themes in the new format of a dark, epic fantasy. ![]() ![]() Much like her other books, The City of Dusk features “stabby girls, soft boys, and death,” as she stated on Twitter. Sim’s first foray into adult fantasy, after her two YA series, the novel is a self-described “goth fantasy” with shadow familiars, necromancy, demons, a diverse cast, angry, murderous gods, and celestial weapons. The City of Dusk by Tara Sim is a delightful, complex, intimate yet explosive debut adult fantasy novel, the first in a planned trilogy titled The Dark Gods. ![]()
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