Genre
Fantasy Novel
Setting and Context
Set in Grishaverse and written in the context of incapacitation
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person narrative
Tone and Mood
The tone is vindictive, and the mood is mysterious.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The main character is Kaz Brekker
Major Conflict
The main conflict is when a mystifying Shu man abducts Retvenko.
Climax
The climax comes when Kaz concludes that the best strategy of securing Ghafa’s release is abducting Van Eck’s wife.
Foreshadowing
The revenge for Ghafa's abduction foreshadows Kazi's plan to incapacitate Van Eck’s sugar silos.
Understatement
The influence of the Shu warriors is understated.
Allusions
The story alludes to incapacitation and vengeance.
Imagery
The opening lines describing Retvenko depict sight imagery. The author writes, “Retvenko leaned against the bar and tucked his nose into his dirty shot glass. The whiskey had failed to warm him.”
Paradox
The main paradox is that Nina develops the ability to manipulate the dead people.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between kidnappings and vengeance among the characters.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
N/A
