![]() 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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