Skin Hunger: A Resurrection of Magic Themes

As you might've guessed from the title, Skin Hunger features hunger and other kinds of suffering. Characters in the book are starved, sleep deprived, beaten, tortured, and generally made to suffer....

The fact that Skin Hunger is the first book in a series called A Resurrection of Magic should be a big hint that magic and the supernatural are major topics. Oddly, though, we don't actually see th...

The world Hahp and Sadima inhabit (though separated by many years) in Skin Hunger is one where social standing matters: the rich have it easy while the poor scramble to get by. Rich people in Hahp'...

Skin Hunger is one of those books where magic works by reciting rhymes and songs. But there's another layer to it as well: after the last age of magic, when it seemed like magic had all but died ou...

Skin Hunger is a book about magic, so you'd better believe that there are also issues of reality: how reality is shaped, why people seem to live in different realities, and when stuff happens due t...

Rules operate in Skin Hunger in various ways. Some rules come from the king and other forms of authority, like the laws that govern the trading of slaves and importing luxury goods. Other rules are...

Feeling isolated and lonely sucks, but it's something that a lot of the characters in Skin Hunger have to deal with. Until Sadima meets Franklin, she's convinced that she's a freak of nature for be...

We tend to think of wizards as being crafty and sly, but in Skin Hunger the wizards are downright manipulative. The wizards who run the academy play mind games with the students, depriving them of...