If the world were fair, Evelyn Radcliffe would be a successful businesswoman. Instead, she’s got two dead husbands, two teenage girls obsessed with marrying princes, and not a single fairy godmother in sight.
I too would like a little more "backstory" (heh) about "the stories" to be revealed at some point. I know it’s not necessary for this book. Nonetheless, I still wonder. Are these books? Oral traditions? A term for cultural norms? How wide a range of them are there?
In a space-faring future, an alien war criminal seeks vengeance on humanity, and a celebrated-but-bumbling hero is forced back into action... whether he likes it or not.
Mercenaries? This is out-of-the-blue. There hasn’t been a hint of mercenaries anywhere in the story thus far.