#our narrator is the surgeon and historian of a group of mercenaries hired by the Evil Overlord (*Overlady hashtag girlboss hashtag equality

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Monte Cristo raised enough of a hankering for Adoptive Dads with Revenge Plots to set me to completing the Black Company trilogy, of which so far I'd read the first book. Raven might be an inverse Dantes in that we meet him at the tail end of what was probably an elaborate revenge plot, and then he dives right into adoptive fatherhood at the first opportunity. And adoptive fatherhood for him implies a lot of moral compromises and terrifying, competent violence. What a guy.