‘Gods of Jade and Shadow’ by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Novelist and NPR contributor Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s new fantasy, Gods of Jade and Shadow, is at its witty, compelling, and merciless best when it is ...

And the Xilbalba of Gods of Jade and Shadow is not even slightly defanged — it is a place of blood sacrifice, hungry ghosts, despair and confusion. Hun-Kamé is merciless, as death is; his twin ...