His father was murdered and his court destroyed while Rune was a teenager, and his social standing is therefore a little complicated on the one hand, he’s technically-sort-of Lord Sun, as the last remaining member of his House. The Arcana who rule New Atlantis are, in-world, the inspiration for the Major Arcana of the human tarot we meet Lord Tower and glimpse Ladies Lovers and Justice in Last Sun, and Rune himself – the main character and first-person narrator of the series – is the heir of the fallen Sun Throne. Since that ended up working pretty well when reviewing The Last Sun. So…I’m going to try to go non-conventional again. This book just set the new standard for fantasy fiction, and the bar is now set so high you can’t see it from the ground. I was hooked, I was glued to the pages, I was mesmerised. After spending the entire year struggling to finish things, I was finally handed a book that gave me no choice in the matter. The important thing is that I could not put this book down. It’s not a problem with the books, but with me, and I could talk a bit about why but that’s really not the important thing here.

Rune's resistance will take him to the island's dankest corners, including a red light district made of moored ghost ships the residence of Lady Death and the floor of the ruling Convocation, where a gathering of Arcana will change Rune's life forever.ĭo you know how long it’s been since that happened to me? I’ve been struggling to concentrate on any book at all, never mind actually finishing one that’s why my currently-reading shelf on Goodreads contains 49 books – I keep starting things and being unable to finish. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Throne, is backed into a fight of high court magic and political appetites in a desperate bid to protect his ward, Max, from a forced marital alliance with the Hanged Man. The Tarot Sequence imagines a modern-day Atlantis off the coast of Massachusetts, governed by powerful Courts based on the traditional Tarot deck. The last member of a murdered House tries to protect his ward from forced marriage to a monster while uncovering clues to his own past. Representation: Queer Protagonists, mlm or M/M, normalised bi/pansexuality, normalised group marriage, sexual assault survivor, trauma The Hanged Man (The Tarot Sequence #2) by K.D.

The Last Sun by K.D. Edwards