“Serenity 4 out of 5 stars This book is a collection of two novellas. In the Nonexistent Knight, an empty suit of armor who is a stickler for the rules and bureaucracy of being in a military camp in the Crusades, discovers that he must now prove his legitimacy of being made a knight by proving the virginity of a royal lady he saved from distress 15 years prior. This is thrown in with a very strange love triangle involving the empty knight, a young hothead knight out for glory and vengeance, and a female warrior. There are many twists and turns, but this is fun satire on the decorum of knights of that time.
The Cloven Viscount is a lot more macabre, in that a Viscount goes to the crusades only to meet with the business end of a cannonball and be cloven into two halves. One half gets picked up and returns to his home, but he is now very evil, and starts executing everyone, setting things on fire, and cutting random things in half, so that things can look more like him I suppose. Then the good half shows up and starts trying to set things right, but people soon realize that he is a little bit too good. How are things resolved? Well you'll just have to read it and find out!
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