Threadmoon

Sean Hamilton's Marionettes of Paradise series continues with Threadmoon, the thought-provoking second installment. Return to the fascinating and strange world of Bahsewl as the gods begin their violent rebirth.More than two years have passed since The Cloudbell made its fateful landing on 0-M-6-Sentinel. In those years, an awakening has begun. The gods weave their influence through the actions of every living thing on the planet, for good and ill. Fear, death, companionship, chaos, order, all working for their own purposes in an eagerness that Bahsewl has not seen in an age.Despite her valiant efforts, Souma Calcarda once again finds herself faced with the violent injustices of men. The Solgestay Village massacre has shaken the idyllic vision she once had of the planet. Inaction is no longer an option for the former first officer, and she will make her presence known to the petty gods and their servants.Meanwhile in the chaos-worshipping city of Voe, the ex-pilot Yara Meredith grapples with her own comfort in the presence of rising dangers on all fronts. The Vigil and their Order of Favored Consuls have a very particular way of burying their heads in the stars as their legs are swept out from under them.The increasingly fanatical Unclasped dig in their heels, hungry for war. A reformed killing machine emerges from his ancient tomb with a child in tow.Two men on Falinese acquire Dimesh Prav's strangely redacted report of 0-M-6-Sentinel.And all the while, the god of death with his ever flowing amphora of souls, is listening to the rain.