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Yendi by Steven Brust

My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Yeah, yeah, you guys told me not to read this book next, but it's what fell into my lap. Though maybe if I had taken the advice I wouldn't be questioning all y'all's judgment and taste so hard right now. Because this was not good. Clumsy, boring, convoluted in weird and uninteresting ways. And the worldbuilding is kind of like those madlib games, except with made up words. Like, the book would be all, "I sipped the Giiizloewf whine. It was red, a shade darker than a Flowieviad, but lighter than a Streizoerjb." And I'd be like, "what the fuck ever, Steven Brust. Page me when you're done transcribing out of your high school notebooks."

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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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