No Gods, No Monsters (The Convergence Saga, Book 1)
One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.
As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence. A professor follows a missing friend's trail of bread crumbs to a mysterious secret society. And a young boy with unique abilities seeks refuge in a pro-monster organization with secrets of its own. Meanwhile, more people start disappearing, suicides and hate crimes increase, and protests erupt globally, both for and against the monsters.
At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark?
The world will soon find out.
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Community Reviews
The many POVs were a bit confusing for my poor memory to keep track of, but I agree with Turnbull's argument that "communities move according to many intersecting narratives", so I didn't chafe against it too much.
Rebecca Roanhorse described the book as "walking the edge of something really profound", and spoke of our need to "hold this story very gently in your hands, not asking for too much clarity out of the gate." I couldn't agree more.
Turnbull also alludes to the relationship between power and mystery, and the sense of helplessness that can come from colliding with such hulking opacity. Those themes echo super well as social allegory.
All in all, this was a literary delight to read, and a powerful commentary on how we perpetuate the margins and treat the people we push there.
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