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Sable hated the gods. She hated what men did in their name. Magic is forbidden throughout the Five Provinces; those born with it are hunted and killed. Sable doesn't know her music holds power over souls--not until, at age nine, she plays her flute before the desert court and accidentally stops her baby sister's heart, killing her. Horrified by what she's done and fearing for her life, she flees north, out of Provincial jurisdiction and into the frigid land of exiles and thieves, known as The Wilds. There, Sable lives in hiding, burdened by guilt, and survives as a healer. But now, ten years later, someone--or something--is hunting her. On the run again, Sable's best chance for survival is Jos, a lethal man from the Five Provinces, who claims to need her skills as a healer to save his dying father, and she needs the large sum of money he's offered. There's something about him Sable doesn't trust, but she doesn't have many options. A spirit of the dead is hunting her, summoned by a mysterious necromancer, and it's getting closer. Sable soon discovers she's just the start of the necromancer's plan to take over the Five Provinces, and she's the only one with the power to stop it. But harnessing her forbidden power means revealing it to the world, and the dangerous Provincial, Jos, she's beginning to fall for.
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No. This book does the utter most when it comes to trying to sell the world to you through throwing in made up fantasy words. I dislike books that overdo it so much that you basically need a dictionary to understand what the fuck the characters are talking about. One of my big pet peeves. Do this gradually, ease me in, pull me in. Don't drag me by the hair.
Another thing is how desperately the book is trying to sell us on the protagonist being a saintly little angel.
Sorry, but this isn't my thing. Too YA. Next.
This sometimes reads like a YA book, sometimes it's most definitely not a YA book (heavy and dark themes).
I like Kloss' take on necromancy. I was thoroughly entertained throughout most of it and I'm definitely looking forward to diving into the sequel someday.
Series
3 primary booksThe Gods of Men is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2020 with contributions by Barbara Kloss.