A girl thief who has stolen something that got all her friends killed, a pansexual forest raider on a mission from a god (maybe), and a mercenary captain posessed by the spirit of a rabid wolf, all search for answers and vengeance in a land riven by war.
Enjoyed this thoroughly. Obvious the author put a lot of work into the world building. Great characters with distinct, consistent, and completely different views of the world. And each of them have their pre-suppositions challenged over the course of the novel and change because of it. Secondary characters similarly reveal the depth of the world. The expectation I had for how events would turn out at the beginning of the novel was subverted in a very good way. Looking forward to what happens to these characters and their world.
"There is no one on earth who writes the kind of dirtbags, scoundrels, cutthroats and rotters quite like Adam Stemple, always with equal portions of compassion and exasperation, with the occasional well-deserved scorn. This book is a complex, knotty, and cliff-hanging yarn. I enjoyed it immensely."
“Everything I've loved about Stemple's work comes together in this. Three characters, each a delight to follow, spiral in to a meeting with all the fireworks you'd hoped for. I can't wait for the next one.”
