Brimstone

A fugitive slave is running from the desert mines, and from an Empire that is hungry for a new and mysterious metal that the alchemists call brimstone. In a moment of mercy and lust, Ava Sandrino, herself a knight fallen from grace, shelters the slave from his pursuers, and in the light of the moon, he speaks to her of a door. It is a gate that opens into a world that lies beyond the Northern Dark, over the edge of their farthest horizon, where souls are remade. Together, they must cross a borderland that is the domain of magicians, the humans that serve them, and the One O’clock King: a faceless despot who guards the crossroads of worlds.

Book club questions for Brimstone by Justine Rosenberg

Use these discussion questions to guide your next book club meeting.

When the story begins, Ava is living alone with the memory of her parents' betrayal. Do you think the experience of abandonment helps shape her decision to aid Sariel? In what way or ways?

Sariel tells Ava, "I have red in my stars." What do you think he means?

Oliver Lake chooses to help Ava and Sariel, at great risk to himself. Is it friendship that motivates him, or something else?

Is it possible to reconcile Ezra Shaw's history with Ava, his current feelings towards her, and his attitude towards sex workers?

Ava leaves her life behind and follows Sariel into a new and unknown world. Despite her statements to the contrary, has she fallen in love, or is she driven by something else?

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