I decided to read a book called Anji Kills a King.
And then on the very first page, she literally killed a fucking king. Wasnโt playing around.
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Vonnegut would approve; โstart as close to the end as possibleโ
And he was a fucking legend. Slaughterhouse Five is a true masterpiece.
Nothing stops this slain
Call me Ishmael.
Hard to step it up from there unless they get all game of thronesy
And everyone was happy afterwards.
Get rid of the monarchy.
Only brought misery to the world.
Put them on an inflatable with a slow puncture.
I finished Anji Kills a King.
I'd give it a 6.5/10. Solid, but not remarkable.
The non-spoiler premise is that Anji indeed kills a king on page one (she's a laundry servant in the castle, rather than a pro assassin), and escapes into the night. However, a famed bounty hunter called "the Hawk" catches her later that week, and is bringing her back as a captive to the capital to be publicly tortured to death for regicide. That all happens at the start.
The story then follows this duo and their journey. The Hawk is a stoic experienced bounty hunter of legend, while Anji is trying to find angles to escape. And there are other nastier bounty hunters after Anji's massive regicide bounty.
The worldbuilding is kind of mediocre in terms of social structures, creatures, magic, religions, etc. The character work is decent, but not extraordinary. The action scenes are okay.
