![]() The storytelling takes a similarly delicate touch. However, it also means that, even at 30 pages, the issue feels a little slight. Writer Sarah Vaughn resists finishing the issue with a big essay explaining what the book is all about.Īll of which is refreshing. ![]() It feels organic, being lowered into a fantastical setting which is treated as perfectly natural by all its inhabitants. ![]() This is about as explicit as Sleepless ever gets about the rules of its world, and there’s a real pleasure in that. A reference to a healing spell that could “risk taking time from the end of my life.” A catacomb of bodies with their faces covered, referred to as Cyrenic’s "resting place," with a plaque that reads: “Here the sleepless lie/Never to wake again.” Matching symbols on walls and tombs and Cyrenic’s doublet. There are tantalizing hints scattered throughout the book. We meet just one of these sleepless, a knight named Sir Cyrenic who may be a supernatural insomniac, an immortal, a revived corpse, or all of the above. ![]() The twist comes in the form of the titular sleepless - and this is where the book plays its cards closest to its chest. Let’s attempt to lay out it all out: Sleepless is set in a fairly traditional fantasy kingdom, the kind with castles, princesses and courtly drama. ![]()
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