As the lead character and protagonist, Sal is a fascinating dumpster fire of a human being with a drinking problem, an itchy trigger finger, and an unforgettable narrative voice.

In terms of structure, the majority of the novel is a first-person frame narrative with Sal recounting the events that led to her capture moments before her impending execution. Readers receive a firsthand account of Sal’s bloody vendetta from the woman herself. After all, what are a paltry two graves to a woman who’s filled cemeteries? Armed with a sentient gun, a bottle of whiskey, and a fistful of spell-worked bullets, readers follow Sal as she carves a path of destruction across the blasted wasteland of the Scar in relentless pursuit of the thirty-three mages who took everything from her. Betrayed by those she loved and trusted most, Sal was robbed of her magic and left for dead. He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now.“Before you embark on a journey of vengeance,” the old adage goes, “dig two graves.” Sal the Cacophony, the protagonist of Sam Sykes’ new Seven Blades in Black, didn’t get the memo.

Tome Of The Undergates is his first book, published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Holland, and Canada. Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature.Īt 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy. Sam Sykes is the author of Tome Of The Undergates, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage. He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now. At 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy. Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature.

Seven Blades in Black by Sam Sykes