Best Served Cold (novel): Difference between revisions

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Duke Salier's torturers in Visserine, and what they do to {{spoiler|Shivers}}.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Friendly uses a cleaver and knife to great effect.

* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: {{spoiler|Monza ends up as Duchess of Talins, refuses to become beholden to any faction, and looks like she's going to make a strong but fair ruler with a strong practical streak. Certainly, one better than the standard run of city rulers one's encountered in the rest of the book.}}

* [[Eye Scream]]: {{spoiler|Shivers}}

* [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]]: Styria is fundamentally Renaissance Italy, made up of warring city-states.

* [[Fantastic Drug]]: Husk, which Monza starts using to dull the pain of her many injuries. It appears to be a loose expy of opium.

* [[Gotta Kill Em All]]: All seven of the men who helped "kill" her.

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: Ganmark gives one to Murcatto.

* [[Irony]]: Holy shit, where do we start? With the fact that {{spoiler|half the betrayals in the book are by accident?}} Or how {{spoiler|Morveer does more to aid Monza after turning on her than he did when he was working for her?}} The only constants in this story are that almost any slight will be avenged, almost every trust will be betrayed, and that you can't stop the consequences of your actions. That leads to a lot of irony of the situational, cosmic, and tragic varieties.

* [[It's Personal]]: Duke Orzo killed Monza's beloved brother Benna (as well as almost killing and permanently maiming Monza herself.

* [[Magic Versus Science]] - Morveer is a strong advocate of science, and magic is not strongly believed in Styria.

* [[The Man Behind the Man]]: A magus. Always.