Nyx sold her womb somewhere between Punjai and Faleen, on the edge of the desert. (Hurley, God's War, 1.)
God’s War, the first volume of Hurley’s Bel Dame Apocrypha trilogy, opened with blood and violence and a kind of desperate amorality. So too does Rapture, the trilogy’s conclusion: but the blood and violence has aged with our protagonist, Nyxnissa so Dasheem, and matured. If Infidel, the second volume, improved a dozen times on God’s War, Rapture improves a good half-dozen on Infidel: this brutal, complex, morally grey novel is an unexpectedly brilliant capstone to one of the freshest approaches to science fiction I’ve read in recent years.
[Every time Nyx thought she’d gotten out of the business of killing boys, she shot another one.]