Although she remains socially avoidant, she learns to value friendship. Artemisia experiences dynamic character growth as her understandings of trauma, history, and morality shift.
In addition to the White protagonist, the narration describes several secondary characters with brown skin the revenant is identified as “it,” while human characters in this world adhere to a gender binary. Amid escalating danger and an unfolding mystery, Rogerson unveils a grim and intriguing world with a rich, plot-relevant history inspired by late-medieval France.
Untrained in controlling spirits and desperate to protect her home, she bargains with the revenant to help her. Reluctantly, Artemisia unseals a legendary relic, binding herself to a revenant, an undead being with immense power. Her plans crumble when a group of possessed soldiers attack her home. Artemisia of Naimes, gifted with the ability to see the spirits, never intends to leave her convent, where the walls protect her from possession and (Lady forbid) social interaction. Without the intervention of the Clerisy of the Gray Lady, they roam as destructive spirits. In a land threatened by violent spirits, a girl with a haunted past unleashes an ancient entity from a holy relic and strikes a deal for the power to save her home.Įver since the Sorrow, the dead no longer pass on peacefully.
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