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The city state of Vencenza rots, and Giorgianna, vengeful, enlightened, an outlaw and witch, seeks blood-the dues she's owed for the crimes committed against her and those she loves.
As summer withers to autumn, she is faced with a deadly quest: infiltrate the ministerial court, unspool the inner circle's darkest secrets, and aid the resistance in bringing forth a revolution to finally break the shackles of tyranny. All while remaining under pretences amidst the state's most violent and powerful men.
But explosive tensions mount among the revolutionaries, bodies pile mysteriously in the streets, the church gains frightening authority, and Giorgianna's psyche teeters along its final breaking point-made only worse by a lovesickness more agonising than hunger.
With winter looming upon the horizon, civil war seems inevitable, and love could never be a saviour.
How dearly will those dues cost?
In this second and ultimate instalment of the grimdark dystopian mystery X gaslamp fantasy duology THE HYPOSTASIS OF DISSENT, politics and philosophy take centre stage, trust is tragically tested, and dark and bloody magic joins the fray of a battle for liberation.
The paperback edition features several illustrations by the author, Sfarda L. Guel, as well as one illustration each by Ayse-Mira Yasin and Nadia Sampellegrini.
Take note that this book is very heavy on worldbuilding and conlang (including footnotes and several POV styles (1st person limited; 2nd person limited; 3rd person limited; all past tense)), and features very dense prose, something which some readers may find detracts from immersion for them.
Content Warnings: government oppression, death, graphic gore, self-injury, mental illness, police brutality, violence against women and trans-identifying peoples, child death and murder, human experimentation, religion and religious violence, gun violence, classism, discussions of sexual violence (humans, minors), suicide, smoking (tobacco), alcohol, discussion of intravenous drug abuse, surgical procedures and needles, fires, sex (open-door, non-graphic), strong language.
ALL ROYALTIES earned from the title are donated to Doctors Without Borders, the Kurdish Red Crescent, and All for Armenia.
