![]() ![]() ![]() This disturbs the priest, who ends up mishandling the gathering and letting the man’s soul fade away in agony. The book starts when Ehiru is performing a gathering one night and is surprised by the response of his victim, who claims that Ehiru is not doing Hannanja’s work but actually being used by his order. Ehiru is known as a Gatherer those who come silently in the dead of the night, in the holy city of Guajareeh, to collect the essence of their targets’ dreams, killing them in the process – although any Gatherer would flinch at the word “killing”, claiming that they are just delivering people to the peace of their goddess. The protagonist is Ehiru, a priest of the Goddess of Dreams, Hannanja, who has the task to bestow peace – death – to those deemed tainted by corruption or who are in desperate need to escape life in a painless way. ![]() Its main characters, however, start to discover that those are elements intrinsic to human nature, and that a society that claims itself free of them is just a hypocritical one. It introduces the reader to a fantastical world, based on dreams and religion, where war and corruption are supposed to be extinct. Jemisin, The Killing Moon is a compelling page-turner: a fantasy novel with big ideas, strong narrative arcs, and good character development. ![]()
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