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We had to wait until this second book before Rolf actually made any progress looking for his missing sister.

Long shudders racked Greca's body, and her lips were a bloodless line in her pallid face. But she did not go into womanly hysterics or swoon at the slaughter it had been her lot to inflict.

"Good girl," said Dex, patting her satiny bare shoulder. "You're a sport and a gentleman. You don't understand the terms? They're Earth words, Greca, that carry the highest praise a man can give a woman.


That's 1931, everybody!

Planetary romance.

So far this is less a story and more a guided tour of the game world. Everything the character says (I say "character" because although there are two, one of them almost never speaks) seems designed to allow the author to provide a lengthy footnote explaining the reference the character just made.

Also, if you're going to name a character "Tarnish", maybe don't also include use the word in unrelated descriptions?

"It occurred to her that schools sometimes burned down in the night."

I'm glad at least most of the group is back together again. Also, this portal network of floating islands in a hyperspace void idea was used later in Darksiders.

2/3 done! I do hope the characters all meet back up together soon, though. I was expecting them all to be getting to know each other on this journey.