A beautiful serial killer who is all set to redefine the very notion of evil and a cynical cop struggling with his own personal demons.’ Goodreads Reviewer His journey isn’t as simple as you would expect for just a traveller, because racism exists in this world, too. There are racial prejudices, because POC are thought to be ‘’stained’’= related to demonologists, who ruled a prosperous empire thousands of years ago, but required souls to feed the demons. Only thing that bothered me about this book is the revelations. I saw almost all of the revelation a mile ago but it didn't hinder my reading experience at all. There must be."Another thing I found interesting was how the POV kept recovering his memory through dreams as visions of events millennia in the past as he continued recovering his shattered stone heart through walking the Obsidian Path.

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After killing the farmer’s horses, we rode them south, exchanging our dead mounts for new ones whenever their appearance decayed to the point they became recognizable as corpses.” No le pongo las cinco estrellas porque como he dicho antes ha habido cosas que me han faltado, pero me lo he pasado bien leyéndolo. Supongo que ha sido un aire fresco de tanta novela romántica últimamente. Aunque, a decir verdad, me hubiera gustado haberlo leído en otro momento porque no me encuentro en mi mejor momento, pero bueno, lo hecho, hecho está.

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Commands were sent out and the demonic host, bound in servitude to the demonologists, had no choice but to obey. Fair warning though, this book is Dark like really really dark. Brutal killings, Flaying, Sacrifices and much more are mentioned in this book. But I personally believe its necessary for this book to get that immersive feeling of this brutal world. It's got a good concept, one that reminded me of the offbeat adventure gamebook Creature of Havoc: a blank slate of a man awakes, at first driven by instinct, then gradually learning more about his world and how he came to be where and what he was at the beginning. It seemed a cool way to worldbuild, letting the reader learn the very basics about the world along with the main character through a natural process. I liked his discovery process and need to disguise his ignorance when we and he learn that, say, mimes have ruled the world for the past 300 years (not a true fact from the book, don't worry), and where the hell have you been that you don't know this?

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Make no mistake, Khraen and his companions aren’t good guys (although one question Fletcher asks is about the nature of evil - is a predator evil when it feeds itself to survive?). One of them, a necromancer, harvests people to repair herself. She treats people as a source of parts. Hence, throughout the book, the question of whether the ends justify the means arises frequently, and the author lets you be the judge.

The greatest strength of this trope (amnesia) is that the reader and the character start from the same point – we get to know the world with the mc. (Such a clever way to explain a vast world with complicated history without info-dumping.)