“Katsa feels that to ride a horse at anything but breakneck speed is a waste of the horse,” Giddon said. Which is ironic since doing that is the actual waste of a horse. The annoying part here is not that Katsa gives no fucks about her horse.  Bad horse handlers exist, and they will get…

Their business in Estill was with an Estillan borderlord who had arranged to purchase lumber from the southern forests of the Middluns. He had paid the agreed price, but then he’d cleared more than the agreed number of trees. Randa wanted payment for the additional lumber, and he wanted the lord punished for altering the…

After dropping off Old Prince with Young Prince, Princess Katsa runs all the way to where her two buddies are waiting to meet up with her. She had to move carefully now, lest she break branches or leave boot prints and create a trail straight to the meeting place. Already the way looked a bit…

We open the chapter with a bit of backstory about our setting.  It’s a land with seven kingdoms, and the old rescue-ee from last chapter is the father of the Lienid king.  Supposedly, there’s no reason anyone would want to kidnap him. They shipped their gold to whoever had the goods to trade for it…

This review was originally written and posted in April of 2014. In these dungeons the darkness was complete, but Katsa had a map in her mind. …is it a map that also tells you were uneven floors are?  Do you have a step count all marked out so that you don’t smash into walls?  What…