![]() The people of Weep are brown-skinned, but godspawn turn blue when they are in contact with mesarthium. Depending on readers’ tastes, this is ornate, emotionally charged, and poetic-or florid, overdone, overstuffed, and angst-y. Taylor ( Strange the Dreamer, 2017, etc.) dances between fantasy and sci-fi, indulging in gods, magic, alchemy, and lost desert civilizations, only to subvert them with spaceships, interdimensional travel, and alien worlds. Freed from isolation, the godspawn struggle to connect, wondering about their parents-both Mesarthim “gods” and unwilling Weep humans-and their missing fellow godspawn. ![]() ![]() Also sharing narrative duty: fellow blue-skinned, magically gifted godspawn Ruby, Feral, and Sparrow-absorbed in their own romantic triangle-Minya, literally haunted by lives lost in the Carnage, and the mysterious Nova, fleeing a wintry wasteland in pursuit of her sister Kora and revenge. Grief-stricken Lazlo experiments with his newfound smith powers and reunites with Sarai in exotic, erotic dreams. ![]() Yet she remains, anchored by malevolent Minya and still in love with Lazlo Strange. But an explosion revealed their existence and killed 17-year-old Sarai. It’s been 15 years since the people of Weep slaughtered the gods and godspawn in the seraph-shaped citadel, an event known as the Liberation by the citizens of Weep…and the Carnage by the five godspawn who secretly survived. Love and hatred haunt survivors in this otherworldly sequel. ![]()
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