#cool sorcery scene about finding the hat in the building a 'ohhh evil alderman' moment

[wvyld]

yeah the paint thing was confusing — I thought it was an illusion, at first, like with the... when he was underground in the first book, in the safehouse or what it was, fake paint guy charged at him; I though it could be something like that. as it was, it just felt unnecessary? the concept was there, and with it being there, it felt like she should have lived.

For a series that literally starts with the protagonist’s resurrection the Matthew swift books do a pretty good job of establishing that This Is Not A Universe Where People Come Back From The Dead. The circumstances of Matthew’s resurrection are so convoluted that there’s no reason to expect them to happen to anyone else, (not to mention that it’s clear that an entity as powerful as the blue electric angels is needed to make that work) and while there’s plenty of ghosts and memory fragments and half-alive necromancers in the setting, nobody Just Comes Back (not even Matthew, if the whole transporter problem conversation is to be believed.) and there was never a moment where I as a reader actually expected anyone to be resurrected after death had been established