el dang commented on The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
The biggest thing I'm noticing on re-reading this is how the early parts of Fetter's left felt in my memory like they took up a lot more of the book than they actually do. I think this is skillful writing by Chandrasekera - he packs a lot of worldbuilding into the first few chapters without it ever feeling like Worldbuilding, it's just richly drawn background to this one guy's story.