"We're all pieces on someone's board, Jorg." 
 A game of chess. Players and pieces. The bigger picture yet to be revealed. 
 The first 10% I was not sure where this was heading and whether or not I'd like it. 
 I loved it. 
 A dark, vivid and original fantasy world, inhabited by creatures like dream-witches, necromancers and leucrota. 
 A controversial plot and an evil, violent, yet philosophical protagonist, never hesitant to sacrifice a pawn. 
 Fast-paced, action packed and poetic writing made this book hard to put down. 
 Merely Jorg's everlasting good luck felt a bit over the top at times and the pacing was slightly off in two places, but hey, it's a debut novel we are talking about. A fact which I found hard to believe everywhere else.