![]() ![]() Roy’s had a heart attack, and under doctor’s orders he’s supposed to not do things (he does things anyway). ![]() Her father inherited Birdsall and Sons from his father, and Mercy and Roy, her dad, have been expecting Mercy’s brother, Zeddie, to take over. ![]() Funerary services in this world are a Whole Thing, involving sail cloth, salt, incantations, ships, and a trip across the Salt Sea, where a god (there are many) welcomes souls into the world beyond. Mercy, as per the title, is an undertaker. Those souls get violent as they have to then find a new body, because dead bodies are really poor investments in terms of maintenance and upkeep. ![]() Hart is a marshal who journeys into a magical world called Tanria and basically hunts zombies? Sort of? They aren’t called zombies (they’re drudges) but they’re corpses reanimated by a soul that takes over the dead body. Hart and Mercy do not like each other at the start of the story. If you like grumpy, taciturn characters with squishy, gooey insides, characters who struggle to become who they are or be recognized for who they are, and, above all, you like a major epistolary element to your stories (I have raised all my hands to that list) you will really like this. This is a book about loneliness, about living a life when constantly dealing with death, and about being seen and heard and understood. ![]()
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