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Summary
On a world which is sort of like our own, sort of not, trolls and humans live side by side and everything is is a little bit more anachronistic, a little bit strange; full of steam engines, gentry, and mysticism. And if you happen to belong to the lucky 30-35% of the population who have a soulmate, their words will appear on your skin if they fulfil two conditions: They must convey a fundamental truth about said soulmate, and they must be clearly communicated to another person in their presence.
Maybe Dirk wouldn't be so angry if he'd always been as uninterested as he claims. But the truth is he'd been desperate to have a soulmate, and coming to terms with his persistently unmarked skin had been hard. So when it finally turns up, way later than it ought to, and it can more or less be summed up as "I'm a lying liar who lies"? Oh, he's mad.
Jake has always been in a complicated relationship with the truth, even before he made an increasingly convoluted mess of his personal life - and more than anything, he's determined not to let his soulmate find him.
Series
- Part 2 of Words