Black Sun Rising 2021 Re-read

[alice_montrose]

Discussion schedule

I'll post 3 chapters/week (Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday). But since we don't all need added stress given the world situation, please read and comment at your own pace. As with the previous group read, the discussion schedule will be included below.

Thank you carmenta and trobadora for doing the hard work the first time round to provide page numbers for the earlier editions. If you have an edition not included and would like to provide page numbers, do let me know and I'll include them. And, of course, the e-books will have different page numbers.

Discussion posts

For every chapter, I'll include a quick summary. Previously we also had: core quotes; thoughts and questions to get the discussion started. Let me know if I should include this, and also if you are interested in links to the previous discussion posts.

And of course I'll link the posts to the schedule for easy access, like we did before.

Spoilers

There might be spoilers in the comments. There's no way around it. So no spoiler warnings are required.

Date of discussion	Chapter	Content	Pages (Daw 1994)	Pages (Daw 2005)
Jan 12	Prologue	The sacrifice	9-17	1-7
Book 1 - City of Shadows
Jan 12	1	Damien's arrival in Jaggonath	21-35	11-23
Jan 14	2	The Patriarch	36-41	24-28
	3	Narilka & Tarrant	42-50	29-35
	4	The Dark Ones	51-52	36-37
Jan 16	5	Damien and Ciani	53-66	38-49
Jan 19	6	Neoqueen Matilla	67-72	50-54
	7	Patriarch	73-75	55-56
	8	Damien	76-82	57-62
	9	Dark Ones	83	63
Jan 21	10	Damien and Ciani	84-95	64-73
	11	Karril & Tarant	96-100	74-78
Jan 23	12	Damien	101-117	79-92
Jan 26	13	Damien & Patriarch	118-123	93-97
	14	Leaving	124-126	98-100
Jan 28	Looking back at Book 1
Book 2 - Night's Keep
Jan 30	15	Briand	129-155	103-125
Feb 2	16	Hesseth	156-158	126-127
	17	on the road - Senzei	159-165	128-133
	18	Hesseth	166-167	134-136
Feb 4	19	Kale - Damien & Gerald	169-185	137-150
	20	Hesseth	186-187	151-152
Feb 6	21	to Morgot	188-207	153-169
Feb 9	22	Chasing the Hunter	208-222	170-182
	23	Dark Ones	223-224	183-184
Feb 11	24	The Forest	225-241	185-198
Feb 13	25	The Keep	242-267	199-220
	26	The Dark Ones	268-272	221-224
	27	Tarrant	273-274	225-226
Feb 16	Looking back at Book 2
Book 3 - Citadel of Storms
Mar 7	28	Crossing the Canopy	277-305	229-253
Mar 9	29	Master of Lema	306-307	254-255
	30	Damien	308-336	256-279
Feb 23	31	Master of Lema	337-338	280-281
	32	Captured	339-363	282-302
Mar 11	33	Joining forces	364-381	303-317
Mar 14	34	Senzei & the Fire	382-426	318-355
Mar 16	35	Tarrant's capture	427-432	356-360
	36	Damien	433-441	361-368
	37	Master of Lema	442	369
Mar 18	38	Lost Ones	443-466	370-389
Mar 21	39	Simulacra	467-469	390-391
	40	Damien: decision time	470-486	392-405
Mar 23	41	Freeing Tarrant	487-512	406-427
Mar 25	42	Master of Lema	513-514	428-429
	43	Healing & plotting	515-534	430-446
Mar 28	44	Damien & the Master	535-551	447-460
Mar 30	45	Escape	552-566	461-472
	46	Invitation	567-574	473-479
Apr 1	Epilogue	Tarrant, Calesta, Narilka	575-586	480-489
Apr 3	Looking back at Book 3 and at Black Sun Rising

Comments

[alice_montrose]

Me too! <3

[prettyarbitrary]

A few of us have lately managed to recruit some new fans, so maybe we will get to have some new faces joining us!

I do worry about spoilers for the new folks, but I also don't see much way around it.

Also, really, at the pace of the discussion posts, I suppose most of them will probably finish reading the books before it's too much of a problem.

[trobadora]

Yeah, IIRC we had the same problem at the time of the last reread - we wanted to be newbie-friendly, but there's just no way around the spoilers while still having a meaningful discussion. Good point about the pace! I hope that will let some new people join in.

[alice_montrose]

Spoilers are evil, but on the other hand kinda hard to avoid when you have a mixed crowd of fans. :(

Good point about the pace! I hope that will let some new people join in.

Hence the faster pace, hopefully getting the reading out of the way first will enable discussions, if not in the chapter posts then in the book/volume final thoughts.

[alice_montrose]

I really hope there will be new peeps joining, this makes everything even more fun.

I thought about the spoilers and the pace of the posts for a few days, and I figured it's impossible to avoid spoilers, but on the other hand a faster pace might help with reading the book, and then either revisit the chapter posts and comment as needed, or discuss in the final post per book or per volume.

I'll make sure to mention this in each post, so new people are not scared away. :)