The emerging kingdom of Montival is a damn cool place to hang out. In this postapocalyptic North America, Stirling has cherry-picked everything a fan might wish for in a high fantasy/apocalypse/alternate history mashup. You've got heroes, horses, swordplay, kings, siege engines, and mystics. And all with (somewhat) less patriarchy, because the postmodern world that spawned Montival-our world-has left a big stamp of twentieth-century social progress on the society rising from its ashes. -Tor.com [The] Tears of the Sun engages fans of the saga, who will anxiously await the next Change. -Genre Go Round Reviews