Book source ~ Tour
7 December 2018
Dark | Fantasy
301 Pages
1st Chapter Review
My Thoughts:
The prelude has a woman
dragging a corpse across the Long Sands which is described as a desert. The
dead guy’s ghost tries to irritate her, but she threatens it with a copper
dagger. This piques my curiosity. Can a ghost be killed again in this world?
Who is this woman? Why did she kill this man? Why drag his body across a
desert? Intriguing. I’ll need to read more to see.
I meet Caltro Basalt in
Chapter One. He’s sailing on a ship to Araxes because he received a job offer. Caltro
is a thief, a pretty good one by his own reckoning and what he’s doing when I
meet him is gross. And a bit funny. Anyway, Araxes seems to be a nasty city,
full of murderers who kill people to enslave their ghosts or shades. They’re
known as soulstealers. This does not sound like any city I want to visit. But
Caltro is heading into this scary city after the ship docks, so I have to
travel with him. And by the end of Chapter One I wish I could run away.
The writing is
excellent. It pulls me in and keeps me in this world. I want to continue on and
see how this Araxes sustains itself. I mean, why would anyone travel there?!
Well, I guess it’s not so bad if you can afford lots of bodyguards, but I saw
no law enforcement while Caltro was running for his life in Chapter One even
though he mentions it’s not exactly a lawless place. This is shaping up to be a
dark and grim fantasy, but there’s been a bit of humor so far, so hopefully
there’ll be more to lighten up the dark places. I look forward to continuing on
with this tale.
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