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Tiassa Review: Needs More Vlad
Apr. 5th, 2011 05:45 pmSo. Tiassa.
I pre-ordered my copy even though it was hardcover, but that's because Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels are immediate buys for me and, despite my mild disappointment with this installment, they still are.
Short review: Needs more Vlad. Seriously, he makes up only about one-third of the content of the book, which the cover tells me is "A new novel of Vlad Taltos." That, I discovered, isn't quite a lie, but it's not the truth either.
Longer review: The first 117 pages are, minus a couple of pages here and there, told from Vlad's point-of-view and directly involve Vlad. Minus the epilogue, this is the most we see and hear from Vlad, unless you count a couple of pages in the last section.
( No spoilers, I think, but proceed with caution. )
Overall, it wasn't a bad book. The writing (except for the first part) was great, and in the last section Brust's gift of dialogue shone brightly, and I suppose at the end of Tiassa I'm even more eager to finally get around to reading about Khaavren and his adventures.
But I just can't stop being disappointed that there wasn't more Vlad. Oh well, at least this wasn't the last Vlad Taltos book.
I pre-ordered my copy even though it was hardcover, but that's because Steven Brust's Vlad Taltos novels are immediate buys for me and, despite my mild disappointment with this installment, they still are.
Short review: Needs more Vlad. Seriously, he makes up only about one-third of the content of the book, which the cover tells me is "A new novel of Vlad Taltos." That, I discovered, isn't quite a lie, but it's not the truth either.
Longer review: The first 117 pages are, minus a couple of pages here and there, told from Vlad's point-of-view and directly involve Vlad. Minus the epilogue, this is the most we see and hear from Vlad, unless you count a couple of pages in the last section.
( No spoilers, I think, but proceed with caution. )
Overall, it wasn't a bad book. The writing (except for the first part) was great, and in the last section Brust's gift of dialogue shone brightly, and I suppose at the end of Tiassa I'm even more eager to finally get around to reading about Khaavren and his adventures.
But I just can't stop being disappointed that there wasn't more Vlad. Oh well, at least this wasn't the last Vlad Taltos book.
