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The prose is sober, there is no blushing verbiage or phrases that sound unnatural.

The language that the characters use when they speak is more like that of 2020 than that of the year 980 (they use sly phrases such as: "

And I need a flourish and a white pony but they are not going to fall from the sky

"), but it is who would understand if not.

Their personalities are neither complex nor schematic: the protagonists fall in love, rebel, manipulate and above all, survive as they can ... They are, and

In short, people of action, but they are not idiots or presumptuous or complacent with readers.

And the action, which is what matters, is colorful and intoxicating like an old Saturday afternoon adventure movie mixed with a game of

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