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The Enterprise of Death
The Enterprise of Death | Jesse Bullington
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As the witch-pyres of the Spanish Inquisition blanket Renaissance Europe in a moral haze, a young African slave finds herself the unwilling apprentice of an ancient necromancer. Unfortunately, quitting his company proves even more hazardous than remaining his pupil when she is afflicted with a terrible curse. Yet salvation may lie in a mysterious tome her tutor has hidden somewhere on the war-torn continent. She sets out on a seemingly impossible journey to find the book, never suspecting her fate is tied to three strangers: the artist Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, the alchemist Dr. Paracelsus, and a gun-slinging Dutch mercenary. As Manuel paints her macabre story on canvas, plank, and church wall, the young apprentice becomes increasingly aware that death might be the least of her concerns.
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Jesse Bullington has a striking ability to craft dark (Squidapus does mean DARK) and heavy stories told through comedic and witty prose. A sheltered Egyptian girl is abducted by a Necromancer to the top of a mountain she can't possibly climb down and is forced through physically and mentally abusive lessons to learn the Necromancer's dark arts. Omorose is a stellar character to follow tho watch that you don't step in the carnage she leaves behind

TobeyTheScavengerMonk His Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart was also all-caps DARK. 6y
Squidapus @TobeyTheScavengerMonk That's on his backlog actually! 6y
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