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OK, one thing that bugs me about a lot of fantasy is that despite the infinite possibilities, it's so constrained in scope -- you have all of time & space & the infinite planes to play around with, and you end up sticking with a relatively small corner of a relatively conventional quasi-medieval/quasi-Renaissance world.
This book was not so constrained.
Salim, refugee from the atheist kingdom, now a less-than-willing priest of the Goddess of Birth and Death (and is there a story there? Oh, probabl ...more
This book was not so constrained.
Salim, refugee from the atheist kingdom, now a less-than-willing priest of the Goddess of Birth and Death (and is there a story there? Oh, probabl ...more
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Lots of fun and a great sense of scenery. Solid adventure.
I liked similar things in this one as in the Hellknight - seeing how murder investigation would work in a magic-rich world, like Golarion. The characters were quite nice though while Salim's concept is interesting, the whole nation he comes from is in my opinion one of the more absurd pieces of Golarion lore. Still, it was a nice, light read.
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