And yet these details coalesce into compelling and disturbing patterns as you read the novel as a whole and reflect upon the implications not just of its plot, but also of the overall environment that it renders."- The Los Angeles Review of Books As with so much of the best science fiction, the details of its worldbuilding sound crazy and arbitrary if you just summarize them flatly. “Reading Destroyer of Light is a disorienting experience. If you enjoy Afrocentric stories and characters this is a book for you.”- San Francisco Book Review As effortlessly as she weaves between the past, present, and future, Brissett also blends sci-fi fantasy with a little whodunit. It is a wonderful story of transformation, survival, and what it means to be human. “Brissett retells the myth of Persephone in this dystopian Afro-futuristic thriller. Their stories, often containing disturbing physical and sexual violence, skate across years, building to a single confrontation when the fate of all-human and alien-balances upon a knife’s-edge. *A young woman with inhuman powers rises through the insurgent ranks of soldiers in the borderlands of Night. *Genetically modified twin brothers desperately search for the lost son of a human/alien couple in a criminal underground trafficking children for unknown purposes. *A violent warlord abducts a young girl from the agrarian outskirts of Dusk leaving her mother searching and grieving. In the four habitable areas of the planet-Day, Dusk, Dawn, and Night-the haves and have nots, criminals and dissidents, and former alien conquerors irrevocably bind three stories: Having destroyed Earth, the alien conquerors resettle the remains of humanity on the planet of Eleusis. New York Public Library-Nine New Sci-Fi & Fantasy Readsīookriot- 20 Must Read Space Fantasy Books for 2021īook Bub-The 24 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of Fall 2021īiblioLifestyle- Most Anticipated Fall 2021 Sci-fi, Fantasy & Horror Kirkus- Best Fiction Books of the Year 2021 The Matrix meets an Afro-futuristic retelling of Persephone set in a science fiction underworld of aliens, refugees, and genetic engineering in Jennifer Marie Brissett's Destroyer of Light
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