All this evolves naturally out of the gritty, well-developed background, Sal's persuasive and involving backstory, and Sykes' intriguing ideas on how and why magic works here and how it's wielded. We do wonder, though, if her will, indomitable though it may be, is stronger than the magics arrayed against her and if she's blinded herself to anything beyond retribution. She wanted revenge, obviously, but the details won't be disclosed for several hundred gore-soaked pages. Her captors listen since one of their own soldiers is involved. So to delay being executed she explains why she came to the Scar and what she did there. Later, as the story opens, somehow the Revolution has captured her. She carried a sword named Jeff, a sentient but bloodthirsty gun named, yes, the Cacophony, with whom she's made some sort of deal, and a must-kill list of seven renegade mages. To this once beautiful land came the famous Sal the Cacophony riding a giant bird named Congeniality. Welcome to the Scar, a continent ravaged by the vicious and seemingly endless war between the elitist Empire and the egalitarian Revolution. Another ultraviolent doorstopper opens the Grave of Empires fantasy trilogy, from the author of God's Last Breath (2017, etc.).
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