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“Suggestive of Raymond Chandler or the early Roger Zelazny. It’s a breath of fresh chilly air.”—Mile High Futures
“A memorable fantasy world, to which it is always a pleasure to return.”—Locus
“Imagine James Bond in a world of magic.”—VOYA
“Engaging…written with a light touch…good stuff.”—Publishers Weekly
“Watch Steven Brust. He surprises you.”—Roger Zelazny
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The Book of Jhereg and The Book of Taltos collected the first five novels of Steven Brust’s highly imaginative fantasy series that Locus praised as “entertaining and worth reading.” The Book of Athyra features books six and seven in the series—Athyra and Orca.
Vlad Taltos is a sorcerer and assassin without peer—as deadly at spell casting as he is with sword wielding. Accompanying him on his journeys are two leathery-winged jhereg who share a telepathic link with Vlad—and triple his chances against even the most powerful of enemies…
In Athyra, Vlad finds he’s ready to retire himself and his jhereg companions, but the biggest hitters of the House of the Jhereg have something else in mind. In Orca, Vlad must repay a debt to a boy who saved his life—even if it means breaking a financial scandal big enough to bring down the House of the Orca, and possibly the entire Empire…
SAVN WAS THE FIRST one to see him, and, come to that, the first to see the Harbingers, as well. Read the first page
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3.0 out of 5 stars
One good, one bad as Vlad takes a new direction,
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This review is from: The Book of Athyra (Paperback)
I wrote full reviews for each book. In briefAthyra-4 stars, a nice book from an innocent's viewpoint about Vlad. Orca-2 stars, a dull book about financial swindles. In full: Savn, an innocent Dragaeran youth is a wonderfully sympathetic character studying to be a physicker when Vlad arrives at his town. He befriends Vlad and begins to find himself ostracized from his friends for hanging around the Easterner. Once he helps Vlad with his injuries there is no turning back. Through Savn's eyes we get to see a vulnerable Vlad, a hurting Vlad without the cockiness, one who is rethinking virtually everything about his life, life in general and the universe. We see Savn grow through meeting the challenges of befriending Vlad, his sister also and we see Vlad changed and changing from the flippant assassin. The pace is relaxed, without being slow, and builds to a climactic ending with consequences for everyone. A very well done effort from Brust, it was almost like reading about Vlad for the first time due to the change of viewpoint. Orca-In this plodding tale of Vlad, much talking is done about a banking financial swindle happening. Like Vlad investigates Enron, but not that much fun. In order to help Savn, who saved Vlad previously Vlad must help out an old lady with the power to possibly heal Savn. This leads to the investigation of the financial swindle. Vlad and Kiera play Joe Hardy and Nancy Drew, except again, it really isn't that fun. The book is dialog heavy and as exciting as my accounting textbook, maybe less so. As others have said, the revelation in the last 10 pages is the only payoff for reading the book. Not worth it in my opinion.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Weaker entries,
By newyork2dallas (Dallas, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Book of Athyra (Paperback)
Two of the weaker entries (Orca, Athyra) in the Vlad Taltos series are compiled in the Book of Athyra. First, Athyra is dull, boring, and unquestionably the worst of the lot (now nine books total, most of which, in contrast, are good to near excellent). Athyra is the only one not told from Vlad Taltos' first-person perspective, is one of the longer books in the series, and has neither the humor nor adventure that characterize the other eight. Brust is an experimenter as a writer -- a praiseworthy concept -- but Athyra essentially goes awry.Orca is not overly memorable, but at least it is within the expectations of the rest of the books -- some swashbuckling, wise-acre humor, twisted plot and solid resolution. Buy it separately and skip Athyra altogether and you really don't miss anything.
5.0 out of 5 stars
More great adventures of Vlad Taltos,
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This review is from: The Book of Athyra (Paperback)
This book furthers the plot and characters created in the previously published volumes in the series. They are written in a different style than the other books but it is still a good one. We also have some major revelations about some other characters in the series which I hope will continue to play major roles in the series.
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