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The Hollow Gods is a four part secondary world epic fantasy series of novels by Rebecca Levene. Told from multiple points of view, the series charts the rise of goatherd Krish, the lost son of the king and the reincarnation of the long defeated ancient moon god. The story follows his journey as he comes to terms with his destiny, discovers his powers and confronts confronts the forces of the rival sun god.

The Hollow Gods

 * 1) Smiler's Fair (2014)
 * 2) The Hunter's Kind (2015)

Setting
The novels are set in an alternative world hundreds of years after a war between the moon god Yron and the sun god Mizhara. After the victory of Mizhara, and the death of Yron, the moon god's servants fled underground and have since turned into worm men, monstrous creatures afraid of sunlight who attack and devour those living on the surface.

The inhabitants of the world live in fear of the worm men and must find ways to survive without staying in one place too long. Wealthy families have built floating homes on lakes, mages a city made from mirrors, poorer people live in trees or in homes on wheels. The largest community is Smiler's Fair, a huge travelling town home to hundreds of people while travels across the land, stopping for short periods and moving on once the worm men claim the first victim.

Principal point of view characters

 * Krishanjit, the son of King Nayan and the reincarnation of moon god Yron
 * Lady Nethmi of Whitewood
 * Cwen of the Hunt
 * Eric, a prostitute from Smiler's Fair
 * Marvan
 * Sang Ki, son of Lord Thilak

Other characters

 * Dae Hyo
 * Drut
 * Olufemi, a mage from Mirror Town
 * Bachur, the Hunter
 * Jinn
 * Alfreda
 * Algar
 * Uin of the Rah Territory
 * Rii
 * Dinesh
 * Vordanna
 * King Nayan of Ashaneland

Smiler's Fair
Teenage goatherd Krishhanjit discovers that he is the long lost son of King Mayan of Ashaneland and the reincarnation of the ancient moon god Yron. The king had ordered Krish to be killed at birth after learning of a prophesy that the boy would go on to kill his father. With the help of warrior Dae Hyo, whose own people have been slaughtered by the Chun tribe, and hunted by his father's men, Krish attempts to raise an army to reclaim the throne from his father.

Meanwhile Lady Nethmi of Whitewood, a young noblewoman, is escorted to the floating community of Winter's Hammer for an arranged marriage to Lord Thilak. After accidentally killing her new husband, she escapes with prisoners Vordenna and her son Jinn, a boy who preaches that the moon god Yron is returning to the world.

Nethmi makes her way to Smiler's Fair where she meets Marvan, a psychopath who kills for pleasure. There the pair discover Krish and kidnap and torture him. As a fire burns down Smiler's Fair, Krish escapes with the help of the mage and moon good supporter Olufemi. Outside the city, Krish meets a band of Chun warriors who pledge themselves to his cause. Krish who orders them to allow Dae Hyo to exact vengeance by killing them on by one.

In a separate story arc, Eric, a teenage male prostitute working in Smiler's Fair is sold to the all female worshippers of the sun god Mizhara, in the far northern city of Salvation. There he fathers a child, only to discover that that child will be the first male ever to be born in the city. The child is destined to be a worm man.

The Hunter's Kind
Krish, Dae Hyo and Olufemi travel to the Rah territory, ruled by King Uin. Uin pledges his allegiance to Krish, but changes his mind after his god frees the territory's slaves. Krish triggers an uprising against Uin and is forced to flee for his life with Marvan to Mirror town, a city of mages and slaves.

In the Moon Forest, teenage girl Cwen leaves her family to join the Hunt - a band of sun god supporting warriors led by the god-like Bachur the Hunter who fight the moon's monsters in the forest. Many years later the Hunter leaves Cwen in charge of the Hunt. Under Cwen's leadership, the Hunt defeat an army of the Chun, now called the Brotherband, who attack the forest.

Cwen join forces with Sang Ki, the son of the dead Lord Thilak, and King Nayan's army to attack Krish in Mirror Town where his presence is restoring power to the ancient runes. At the battle's climax, Krish makes a truce with the king and decides to build his power base from within his father's court.

In Salvation, under the guidance of the bat-like creature Rii, Eric manipulates the mother of his son Drut into falling in love. Drut gives birth to a baby boy. Eric takes the son and flees south. The Hunter, who has returned to Salvation reveals that she killed Mizhara, the sun god, many years before. The badly injured Drut is taken to Salvation where she is healed by Salvation's machinery and reborn as Mizhara.