Black Sun was an adventure! The author paints a vivid world filled with old and new magic warring against one another and simmering beneath it all, dark magic practiced by a few. The cast of characters were incredibly diverse and interesting to read about! I feel like we barely scratched the surface with these characters, especially Xiala. There's so much more to learn about them and I'm glad the author left me wanting more from them! The perspectives were all very different and I kept wondering, what exactly do each of these people have to do with the overall story? It all comes together eventually of course; the book is set up so that the reader anticipates all of the paths crashing together on the day of Convergence. My best advice is to pay attention to the dates at the beginning of each chapter! This story does not flow the traditional way, it jumps from past/present/future throughout the entire novel. 

The political intrigue featured in Black Sun was fascinating. There are clans within the city of Tova battling for leadership, all the while ignoring their true duties to the people. The Sun Priest is facing nonstop backlash from the citizens and her own dedicants/priests. She's barely hanging on to power! There's a wayward captain of a largely unknown but equal parts enchanting ancestry who's tasked with delivering the potential rebirth of a God to Tova before Convergence. With all that being said, that is literally 1/10th of the politics brimming in this story! I can't imagine how much more will come in books 2 and 3, but I can infer that there will be a lot more to come. 

So all in all, this book was very entertaining! I think this was a solid start to an epic fantasy trilogy. I'm definitely eager to read more. I hope that the rest of the series has even higher stakes for our characters and the fragile fabric of reality that they're holding on too. I also hope that the pacing of the story picks up so it can have me a little on the edge of my seat. Here's hoping for a good time in book 2!