This is a great read. It's really weird, full of mainly incomprehensible characters, and takes place in a strange multiple-world view that's full of different sorts of (mainly gruesome) magic, swords, and cutting dialogue.

How can you dislike a book that includes, 'She shivered like a maggot next to a dead duck'?

There's a sequel on the horizon, and I shall be getting hold of it if I can. Tamsyn won't be reading this but if she did, I'd ask her to make sure vol 2 is out before 20 August.