Jack Burdwood’s Reviews > The Bone Ships > Status Update

A fools custom
But it keeps our ships safe.
Does it? Or are they just pretty lights?
They are the health of a ship. The lights are his soul. That is why the black ships are dead: they cannot hold corpselights.
And yet they still fly, do they not?

I love how Meas sees things for how they really are and is slowly breaking down Joron’s (and our) world view through these exposed moments of bitterness. So good.

I get the feeling that Meas is called lucky not because of some ability to pull good fortune out of bad situations, but more because the entire world just wants to see her die and she refuses to comply.

‘Part of him, a small part he did not like but could not deny, hoped they were too late; the thought of those who wanted to kill him and having to kill in return filled him with fear like he had never known. But another part, one raised on the tales and stories of his father, thought of how he would be a hero, flying in on a black ship to save the children. It was the sort of thing women and men sang songs about’