The second novel in the Hugo Award-nominated Books of the Raksura series, from New York Times-bestselling author Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries). Moon, once a solitary wanderer, has become consort to Jade, sister queen of the Indigo Cloud court. Together, they travel with their people on a pair of flying ships in hopes of finding a new home for their colony. Moon finally feels like he's found a tribe where he belongs. But when the travelers reach the ancestral home of Indigo Cloud, shrouded within the trunk of a mountain-sized tree, they discover a blight infecting its core. Nearby they find the remains of the invaders who may be responsible, as well as evidence of a devastating theft. This discovery sends Moon and the hunters of Indigo Cloud on a quest for the heartstone of the tree -- a quest that will lead them far away . . . across the Serpent Sea. In this followup to The Cloud Roads, Martha Wells returns with a world-spanning odyssey, a mystery that only provokes more questions -- and the adventure of a lifetime.
I read the first book of the Raksura years ago and was captivated. Upon discovery of this website I thought that it was finally time for me to find out what happened afterwards.
I wasn't disappointed. Wells' seemingly endless well of creativity and her knowledge of how societies and people work is nothing short of stupendous.
Her stories are like living through the life and time of your culture's heroes along with them, and to such a point you forget that these characters were completely foreign to you until you opened the book.
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