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. It wasn't just the first-person narration, which is rarely my first choice but not a problem by itself (my beloved Assassin's Apprentice employs it, after all). Robin decides that the agency can’t help with this – and thinks nothing more of it until a few days later, when she reads the shocking news that Edie has been tasered and then murdered in Highgate Cemetery, the location of The Ink Black Heart.

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All he knows now is that he is being drawn to the fragments of his obsidian heart that have been scattered about the world by whoever it was that murdered him.

It leaned into its grimdark nature giving us a character who is pretty much a murderous asshole from page 1.

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He's sure that he needs to find out more, and begins to slowly do so, but his tale is filled with sadness, death and loss, and he's soon to find out far more than he bargained on. Plus, there’s another possibility, it may not be the revelations of his past that changes him, it could be the cruel surroundings and racism he constantly met on his journey. But Detective Dan Riley suspects there is more to this case than meets the eye and the pathology report confirms his worst fears – the victim was poisoned and suddenly Dan is dealing with a murder inquiry.Solo così potrà scoprire il suo passato, un richiamo ossessivo e disperato che porterà Khraen a camminare lungo un sentiero bagnato di s4ngue. We blunder through life, writing our failures and excuses as we go, defending every choice with justifications made up after the fact. I didn't give it 5 stars because our MC felt too neutral with an almost non-existent personality, making him less fun than previous Fletcher heroes.

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I think this book is marketed as adult fantasy, so expect relatively descriptive sex scenes and (not relatively) graphic violence. Cuore di Ossidiana è stata una lettura ricca e scorrevole che mi ha coinvolto dall'inizio alla fine. And while we get to follow his plot, and his world, his distinctive voice get stronger and stronger until it feels like you really are inside the story. 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.It was a very unique experience reading a character that has been reduced to his most rudimentary foundation. Aly’s writing has been nationally recognized in the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle and featured in Blue Marble Review, The Sunshine Review, PopMatters, and Cathartic Literary Magazine. But the author does a fantastic job of showing how a small evil deed makes it easier to accept a larger one. Black Stone Heart is Fletcher's best novel to date, and that is really saying something coming from someone who can't stop talking about Beyond Redemption.

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I'll never forget Sean Connery's complete lack of attempt to put on a Spanish accent, and neither will I forget Christopher Lambert's equal lack of attempt to put on a Scottish accent. The more time he spends in the world, the more he realizes how the population despises him for his dark skin. And most interesting is watching the justification of Khraen's sliding scale of morality, as his "I'll never sink that low" to "well, I have to do that for the greater good" becomes a steeper and steeper decline. As he struggles to fight a bewildering array of diseases he’s only read about in textbooks – dengue fever, scurvy, rare genetic syndromes – often consulting via an interpreter, a growing number of unexpected patient deaths create an atmosphere of paranoia. It might be a little flawed—but that does not take away from my excitement at seeing Khraen’s journey continued.The plot is fairly simple (protagonist and narrator regains parts of his heart, gets drunk and laid, regains his memories, travels to impossible places, meets old friends and foes, discovers his violent past) and most of the fun comes from experiencing events with Khraen and seeing how they change him. the Khraen we follow throughout the book, sets out to kill his other selves, consumes their shards, and remember who he is.