Rating:4.0/5 Summary: When something goes majorly wrong on the Icarus spacecraft, rich heiress Lilac LaRoux and newly decorated General Tarver Merendsen, become trapped in a space pod. It’s only thanks to Lilac’s familiarity and mechanical skill that they get their pod to launch and narrowly evade death. After crash landing on a seemly empty, but terraformed planet, they begin their search for the ship and inhabitants of the planet. Strange visions accost the pair and they believe they’re going crazy, but maybe there’s something else […]
Poison First, Ask Questions Later, or Maybe Not
Grave Mercy takes place in medieval Brittany, while France is threatening to take over and Brittany’s independence is hanging in the balance. Their duchess can’t be crowned without the consent of the French regent and she is entrenched in slimy marriage deals from multiple suitors. That’s the abridged version of the complex historical background that sets the scene for this story. The story is about Ismae, a girl who was fathered by Mortain, an ancient God of Death. She is mistreated by her father and […]