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lightreads ([personal profile] lightreads) wrote2012-11-03 12:51 pm

Jhereg by Steven Brust

Jhereg (Vlad Taltos, #1)Jhereg by Steven Brust

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


Assassin nonsense in a fantasy land where death is generally not final and humans are the minority.

Yeah, I know everyone loves these books, but did you love the first one? Because I thought this was inoffensive but also uninteresting, and there was this overbaked convolution to the whole thing that made me think I ought to be reading it out of the super sekrit writing notebooks of a high school kid who plays a lot of D&D. Not like there’s anything wrong with D&D, just, you know. Random reincarnation plotline wtf?

To be fair, this was my hurricane book, and yeah, my sense of humor was elsewhere for a few days there (apparently it runs on electricity, I didn’t know). But yeah. Not funny.




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[personal profile] readerjane 2012-11-03 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been meaning to read this for years, and never got around to it. Neither my own library nor the next town over has got it, not an excuse at all anymore now that e-resources are so ubiquitous. Maybe this year.