Tanya huff quarters5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The two siblings have always been a team, but the strain of sharing a single body may prove too much for them as they track down the man who has absconded with Bannon's body. When their target somehow steals Bannon's body, his soul must take up residence in Vree's body, or risk dispersal and death. but their latest assignment is waiting for them, with a trap that they have no hope of escaping. Summary: Vree and Bannon are the two best assassins the Sixth Army has to offer. Overall, a bit choppy but compelling, and I am looking forward to the sequel. And the actual villain was both totally sympathetic and completely repulsive, which also worked out nicely. The semi-incestuous attraction started out really creepy and turned sort of fascinating, which I did not expect, and made the whole love triangle work way better for me than it should have. And the "bad guy" is sort of muddy - his plan is awfully weak and he goes from appalling to sort of the hero way too quickly to be believable. ![]() I didn't totally love both the main sibling characters - she's a little too perfect and he's a narcissistic asshole whose sole redeeming quality is that he's pretty. This actually helped a lot, because the sort of idealized original setting doesn't have a ton of inherent conflict - the Empire was a great place to look at the magic system from an outsider's point of view and introduce some morally gray characters. ![]() While set in the same world as Sing the Four Quarters, it isn't a direct sequel. ![]()
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