While Amra’s network of underworld compatriots would not qualify as overly-bothered with morality, they operate (mostly) under an honor system that binds them into a motley crew. This town is Lucernis, a festering urban dystopia, where vengeful cemetery goddesses, inhuman assassins, and brutal Giuliani-style crime suppression intertwine. The task of watching over a pilfered religious artifact seems benign-enough, but Corbin’s subsequent violent death pulls her into a web of mystery, betrayal, and murder as seemingly everyone in town is trying to get a piece.
When we meet Amra in The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble’s Braids, her thievy friend Corbin is in a pinch after being swindled by a client, and asks her to hide a hideous golden toad for a while. More like the “getting herself into ridiculously impossible situations, then bad-mouthing her way out” kind of fun, but okay Which is all to say, what she lacks in moral rectitude, she makes up for in funnnnnnnn! But what she does have is a combination of Buffy’s mad slayer skills and Veronica Mars’s bad attitude all wrapped-up in the hard-drinking lifestyle of Tessa Thompson’s Valkyrie. She doesn’t “not steal for a living,” nor does she “particularly care about the well-being of her fellow humans.” She also doesn’t care for boundaries, or have any respect for authority. Just so you know right off the bat: the titular character of Michael McClung’s Amra Thetys series isn’t a very morally upright person as far as fantasy heroines go.
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