![]() The book was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award in 2013. Jemisin, had just won that years Hugo, Nebula and Locus awards for her latest novel The Stone Sky, the third novel in her Broken Earth series. Jemisin a "rising talent with a career worth following." io9 praised the book's themes of "religion, gods and magic." Kirkus Reviews wrote that the book was "fulfilling" but remarked that at points the book was "claustrophobic" and that it lacked maps. Jemisin is an American Speculative writer and blogger that was nominated for the Nebula Award in 2010. At the time of publication in 2018, the 46-year-old author, N. ![]() ![]() Slant Magazine praised The Killing Moon, calling N.K. Reviews for the book were predominantly positive. However, when dreamers begin dying, the murders seemingly done in the name of the city's dream-goddess, Ehiru must find out who is doing this and why before the city is destroyed in the process. It is they who must gather together magic while people sleep, using the magic for altruistic purposes as well as to protect the city from the corrupt. The book follows Ehiru, a Gatherer who has sworn to help keep the peace in the city of Gujaareh. ![]() Released on by Orbit Books, The Killing Moon centers on a series of murders and a potential magic war. ![]() Jemisin, and the first novel in the Dreamblood series, followed by The Shadowed Sun. The Killing Moon is a fantasy novel by N. ![]()
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