First, he writes his own divorce into the story, so that cute love story from Yendi is torpedoed. It is actually deceptively hard to write a compelling, smoothly flowing story.Īnd then Brust flips his table and destroys everything he built up in the first books. Nothing about it is particularly groundbreaking, but I appreciate Brust’s skill as a writer because he makes it look so easy. It’s fantasy comfort food, relying largely on rogues and magic to hook you in. He reminded me a bit of Corwin from Zelazny’s Chronicles of Amber. Steven Brust focused all his storytelling energy on him as the only character of note. Vlad has a bit of deadpan humour and is a good guide for us. It’s more about conversation and connections than about action. A tense story unfolds, full of implied danger around every corner. He’s a pretty interesting fellow and his story is compelling and easy to follow. Vlad tells us all about it in first-person. A dragaeren from the House of Jhereg hires Vlad to track and kill a mysterious thief. He lives in a world where humans are second-class citizens and society is run by near-immortal elf-like folk (Dragaerens). We meet Vlad, an assassin for hire who also knows a bit about witchcraft and has a little talking dragon familiar ( shut up, Loiosh). It’s like a mafia story in a fantasy world.
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