So, as much as I loved The Killing Moon, I find the Shadowed Sun even better. I realized, only in retrospect, that The Killing Moon lacked something of a... character depth? A tug? Perhaps a feeling of the personal-- so much of the tension and longing between characters came from developments that happened off stage and long ago. That wasn't bad, not at all. But because so much of the change and growth and personal revelation happened ON stage in this book, it fell like a hammer blow--just how I adore the books I pick up. At night, reading in the bathtub, snot and tears, injustice and double standards laid bare, and a different take on the questions we ask in our fiction about gender and identity and recognition we have to fight for... and so much more.