The Spear Cuts Through Water

Hardcover, 400 pages

English language

Published July 22, 2022 by Random House.

ISBN:
978-0-593-15659-9
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4 stars (9 reviews)

The people suffer under the centuries-long rule of the Moon Throne. The royal family—the despotic emperor and his monstrous sons, the Three Terrors—hold the countryside in their choking grip. They bleed the land and oppress the citizens with the frightful powers they inherited from the god locked under their palace.

But that god cannot be contained forever.

With the aid of Jun, a guard broken by his guilt-stricken past, and Keema, an outcast fighting for his future, the god escapes from her royal captivity and flees from her own children, the triplet Terrors who would drag her back to her unholy prison. And so it is that she embarks with her young companions on a five-day pilgrimage in search of freedom—and a way to end the Moon Throne forever. The journey ahead will be more dangerous than any of them could have imagined.

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A grim yet beautiful story of love and hope

5 stars

Absolutely wonderful story. It is at times unbelievably dark and grim, and then at other times almost magical in it's beauty. Jimenez's unique style gives the reader insight into the world the protagonists travel upon, by allowing us to peer into the thoughts and dreams of others. This book covers many themes. Love and War, Greed and Hate, Honor and Family, and many many more, as well as the marriage and intersection of these themes. This book explores the history of a fictional world from the past, the present, and from somewhere entirely in-between. It is dark, complex, and beautiful, and I couldn't recommend it more than I already am

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5 stars

"Blame is an endless circle."

I waited fervently for this ARC to be available, because I loved The Vanished Birds so damn much I couldn't stop talking about it to all my book friends. When I started reading this book, though, it struck me immediately how different it felt from my first love. I believe in honesty, and will say that I almost bounced off this one from the beginning because of how different it is. I've never been a very literary reader despite reading literary fiction, so when confronted with a clearly very literary book I immediately get discouraged and think most of it will go over my head and I'll never understand what's going on. I stuck with it, though, because it's an ARC and I felt obligated to finish what I start, and noticed that after I let the book begin and got used to the different …

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5 stars

I loved The Vanished Birds more fiercely, but I think that this one made me laugh like the SICKOS guy more often, so who's to say which is better, really. Brilliant and weird, playful and bloody, and confident enough in what it's doing to put off explaining it until it has enough momentum to hurt.

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