I’m past half of the book, and only now I have collected my thoughts to write anything.
It’s basically Suicide Squad set in a almost-Europe, where Punic wars were won by Carthageans, so the priests are female and wear a wheel instead of a cross.
The squad consists of a vampire, a female werewolf, and an elf that can become invisible, chaperoned by an undying knight and a female version of Jack the Sparrow, Abercrombie has a particular love for that character, since he had one in Best Served Cold as well.
There’s also a magician, or a necromancer more like, although it’s a running joke the Squad go through their magicians quite quickly, and a failing young priest to oversee them, and it’s another joke that the Squad run though them even quicker.
There’s also a bomb, of course, in the form of Papal Binding, so they can’t just all run off.
All set to install a would-be princess on a throne of Troy (not Bisantium).
Reading it is like watching a TV series so much I wonder of Abercrombie didn’t write it with the intention of making a TV series, after his comics series died in infancy.
