The city where Love and Death arrive dancing is a city where everything was taken very lightly and then things started to become serious. Terrible monster-like creatures started roaming the city streets and no one is safe anymore. The days of dancing are finally over and to survive all a person can do is to hide as long as he can. But this will only prolong his span of suffering because death will come to him sooner or later.
Among all these troubles Michael Page narrates about the life of a man who wants to step away from all these devastating things but he just can’t. Assassins with terrible skills are searching for men like him and when they are after you, hiding will not help you anymore. A few chapters later author Steven Erikson adds the Son of Darkness in the story.
Rake is the ruler of a city known as the Black Coral by the people. Now he has his eyes set on Darujhistan and he is coming for its control. All of it means one simple thing i.e there would be more bloodshed. Chaos like that in Gardens of the Moon and Deadhouse Gates gets more garnishing by the author. Troubles are just going nowhere now and death might be coming more quickly to the land.
Everything happens so quickly in the story that the listener gets stunned by the sudden changes on most occasions. Threats appear to be fake at the start and then they start getting real and terrorizing for the audience. A dramatization of the scenes does matter in such books that’s why the author has given special attention to this thing.
