This is neither magical fantasy nor a sweeping battle-strewn epic. Long before Beauty and the Beast, we've known that it's what's on the inside that counts, something that Cornish's (male) hero Rossamünd has to find out for himself on his very personal journey. There are also a number of Cornish's full-page character portraits dotted throughout the book, reminiscent of the pencil sketches in Joshua Mowll's Guild trilogy.Ĭornish's Half-Continent is a world of "tricorner hats and flintlock pistols", inhabited by humans, monsters and the surgically altered people who lie somewhere in between. This includes a calendar, cross-sections, diagrams and maps of such detail I wish they'd come with a magnifying glass supplied. I'm paraphrasing from an entry in the glossary, part of a 100-plus page "Explicarium", which takes up over a quarter of the book. A monster-blood tattoo (with a hyphen in the text) is a tattoo given to someone who has just slain a monster, made with some of the blood siphoned off that same monster.
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