Jhereg by Steven Brust

[lightreads]

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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Comments

[malka]

I kind of think of these books as the adult equivalent of the Babysitter's Club books. They're light and pleasant to read, without making you think much or leaving you with any particular memories. You can skip around in the series almost at whim and it doesn't matter much. Other than Brust's coffee fixation and the lack of the BSC's chapter 2 intros, they feel very similar to me.

(Then again, it took me a very long time to realize that I should be translating Dragaereans as elves instead of as dragon-people, and I've never quite gotten over that.)

[lightreads]

First off, lol, but secondly,


(Then again, it took me a very long time to realize that I should be translating Dragaereans as elves instead of as dragon-people, and I've never quite gotten over that.)




Okay, thank you. I basically cast them as dragon people the entire time even though I knew I wasn't supposed to.