This book was a joy and a delight. Set in a D&D-ish fantasy world, it opens with our heroes Rickety Stitch (a reanimated skeleton minstrel) and his dear friend the Gelatinous Goo being fired from their jobs in a corporate dungeon. Seeking better prospects they hit the road. Rickety plays the part of a happy-go-lucky wanderer but when he sleeps he dreams of a haunting song, and the fact of his existence is very strange. Most animated skeletons are mindless automatons who work day and night. But Rickety has a heart, a soul, and soon, a goal: follow the path of his dream song and find the road to Epoli.