A review by _b_a_l_
The Belly of the Bow by K.J. Parker

3.0

Read this one and the first book very close together and can't really differentiate them, so this is for them both. There's something in KJ Parker's writing that is melancholy and beautiful and speaks to the futility of life. Sort of like Chuck Palahniuk for sword and scocery fantasy. In this series its gone past a point where I enjoy it into a place that just feels unpleasant and needlessly dark. To belabour the metaphor this is Haunted rather than Invisible Monsters. Its really a 2.5.