![]() Bugs are the source of fuel, of food, of currency. Beetles, wasps, locusts – they skitter underfoot, hiss from the shadows, swarm to drippings of water, sweat or blood. Hot, arid, and stingy, the only thing the land seems to produce are bugs. Ruthless, godless, and without honor, she cares for little and trusts no one.īut it’s not like life is easy for anyone on Nyx’s world. But if Nyx is anything, she’s a survivor. Nyx’s last escapade, which included her selling body parts to gene pirates, has finally pushed her over the line with the Council, and she is turned out of the order to survive in any way she can as one of the brutal bounty hunters who will kill anyone for the right price. But she’s never been one for following the rules, and she’s made some pretty powerful enemies since being blown apart while clearing out mines in one of the land’s imitable holy wars and reconstructed by one of the sovereign magicians of Nasheen. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nyxnissa so Dasheem is a bel dame, a powerful sect of female assassins for hire. But by the time I had finished, I was left amazed and dumbfounded with how gripping it was, how deftly it was written, and how deeply it had affected me. It is a harsh book, one full of blood and dirt and betrayal, and lacking all but the barest modicum of grace. ![]() I can’t speak as to the verity of that statement, but it took me three tries before I was finally able to make my way through Kameron Hurley’s dark speculative fiction novel God’s War, and there was absolutely nothing charming about it. ![]()
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