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Where did this come from? It is not on her web site. It is 400 pages long so can't have been dashed off on a whim. It is another damned love story about another damned broken paladin. I wasn't going to buy it, but then I read the excerpt and was doomed. I am supposed to be reading Collingwood's autobiography and a history of the Holy Roman Empire, not 400 pages of fantasy romance. Doomed, doomed, doomed! I will be back shortly with a better review. Better review: This is really good. It's an ahistorical romance. The best part is being inside the woman protagonist's sensorium. She is a perfumer, and has a naturally sensitive and highly trained nose. She analyzes smells most people wouldn't even be aware of. She is much larger inside than most of us. The paladin is another good part. He is different in some respects from the one in the Clocktaur wars books. This one is an infantryman, not a knight, but the sort of thoroughly disciplined, professional infantryman the Spartans turned out. He's a good guy, too. He is a berserker, but in a charmingly orderly, lawful, professional way. As is proper to a professional killer, he is worried most of the time that he might be doing something wrong. The rest of the time he worries that he might be letting someone else do something wrong. He reminds me of my German Shepherd. He is Lawful Good right down to the bone. The love story is exactly my sort of thing, but I am a sap. In the moments when I was not having my socks charmed off, I was thinking that seeing no reason that anyone should love you is appropriate, seeing as love is not reason, but that they could for godsake talk to one another. Nobody outside of a D.H. Lawrence novel has any business communicating this badly. Kingfisher needs a new way to generate narrative sexual tension. There is a nifty little horror story ticking away in the background, too.