This Earth is very much like our own-same countries, same pop culture, same technology-except for the presence of various magical beings. The story takes place in New Atlantis, an island formerly known in the human world as Nantucket. It's everything I want in quality fantasy and more: a lovingly-crafted, rich setting that's a blend of contemporary and high fantasy prose that moves from laugh-out-loud humour to quiet poignancy caffeine-fueled pacing and breakneck action sequences complex, unabashedly queer characters, and heartfelt exploration of the many kinds of male relationships. It brims with life and love and wonder and serves as a testament to some of the best this genre has to offer. Because The Last Sun shines with the light of a supernova. A hundred gifs of muppet flails would be a better representation of my feelings, but I figure I still have some shred of respectability and professionalism to maintain.īut that was more or less my experience reading this book-every cell of my body flailing their tiny cytoplasmic limbs in abject worship. But that was more or less my experience reading this book-every cell of my body flailing their tiny cytoplasmi I've been sitting on this review for over a month, all the while rewriting and tweaking and coming to the realization that a written review can't properly encompass the adoration I have for this story and its characters. A hundred gifs of muppet flails would be a better representation of my feelings, but I figure I still have some shred of respectability and professionalism to maintain. I've been sitting on this review for over a month, all the while rewriting and tweaking and coming to the realization that a written review can't properly encompass the adoration I have for this story and its characters. In looking for Addam, can Rune find the truth behind his family's death and the torments of his past?. But as they investigate, they uncover more than a missing man: a legendary creature connected to the secret of the massacre of Rune's Court. With his companion and bodyguard, Brand, he questions Addam's relatives and business contacts through the highest ranks of the nobles of New Atlantis. Rune Saint John, last child of the fallen Sun Court, is hired to search for Lady Judgment's missing son, Addam, on New Atlantis, the island city where the Atlanteans moved after ordinary humans destroyed their original home.