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How are you even supposed to pronounce that anyway? I've been pronouncing it "smear town".

SCSF: I would think like "smir-ton", where "ton" sounds like the placename suffix. Alternatively, it would sound like "smɜːtən".

As I said in my own spork, if Faraday has two older sisters (both of whom are married), how is she such an insanely rich heiress? Shouldn't her two brothers in law have inherited the lion's share? Not that we ever see either of them. Or the other sister, for that matter. We only get to see Annwin (I might have spelled that wrong but fuck it).

Also, if both sisters are married adults why haven't they moved out to live with their husbands on their presumed estates?

Further, why did Isend and Merlion not have Annwin marry Borneheld, given that she is the oldest? I guess Douglass did not ever bother to fit this with things happening at the beginning of the book. Now it just looks like Isend and Merlion had Faraday as a favourite for some reason, or that WolfStar has brainwashed them into giving Faraday everything.

Also also, when Faraday is finally set free in the sequel trilogy, why doesn't she ever (as far as I recall) go and see them? She leaves the rest of her surviving family still believing she's dead! I don't think she even makes any effort to protect them when the Assrape Demons show up! Good fuck.

Let me see... Oh, she does! She goes to Ilfracombe (because we could not get this name here), and finds it abondoned. From the clues she finds (a hasty departure), they have likely gone to Sanctuary. So... I presume that she eventually meets up with them when all is over (though Faraday naturally is not allowed to say "goodbye" to them when she leaves forgood).

And just how did this group of "bandits" become so numerous anyway? Is there no local law enforcement at all?

I guess it might be that Isend and Merlion are gone... but they would have people to watch over the estate in their absence, I would think. Why could Annwin not send out people, or Osmary (if she is already married to him)?

Though as it happens I have a friend who is also a medieval historian with a PhD, and she told me that in life Douglass was, and I quote, "a crap historian" who taught materials which were "forty years out of date".

So naturally she also wrote quite some books explicitly set in historical settings.

And here we've also just been introduced to Wainwald Powle, who will have a truly disgusting reappearance in book three.

He allegedly sexually assaulted Azhure quite often, if I remember right. Then Azhure should also have some kind of reaction to him being around here.

Him too, only more so.

And he was possessed by Artor, I believe.

If she's being abused by her father why the fuck is she provoking him like this? Later on she even thinks about how he's totally going to beat her again for making a fool of him in front of Axis and Belial and that she's still recovering from "three broken ribs" he gave her the last time that happened!

It's painfully obvious that Douglass had no idea how to write a victim of domestic abuse. Azhure isn't quietly avoiding drawing attention to herself or going out of her way to keep her "father" happy. Instead she's deliberately provoking him, showing disrespect to the (ugh) BattleAxe in front of him, and now getting all belligerent and sulky - again, in front of him. He beats you so badly you should be fucking DEAD, Azhure. If it's too much to expect from you to have gotten out of there years ago, you could at least have learned some goddamn self-preservation.

I think Douglass wanted to have Azhure be an abuse victim (because that is edgy and mature), while also having her "take no shit" (because that means she is "badass"), and she did not think about how the two mesh. So the end result is... this.

Why is the execution always "tomorrow morning"? Why is it never "immediately"? It's not as if they're going to put the two of them on trial first.

Never mind that Shra should already be dead, either...