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hawkwing_lb ([personal profile] hawkwing_lb) wrote2008-10-27 05:49 pm

Steven Brust, "Jhegaala"

Books 2008: 126

126. Steven Brust, Jhegaala.

This is nothing like the book I'd hoped for, and yet, for all that, quite excellent.

It's set shortly after Vlad leaves Dragaera (between Teckla and Orca, I think, although I could be misremembering). He's gone East to look up his mother's relatives and avoid the Jhereg, but since this is a Vlad Taltos novel, it doesn't work out quite that simple.

It's Vlad. It's Brust. Really, is there much else to say?


I should probably finish my packing. Gods, I hate travelling. Why do I do it?

[identity profile] rysmiel.livejournal.com 2008-10-27 06:02 pm (UTC)(link)
On one reading, this is my least favourite of the series to date. I hope it improves on rereading.
Edited 2008-10-27 18:02 (UTC)

[identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com 2008-10-27 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not Orca or Issola - or Dragon or Athyra - that's for certain. But I rather prefer it to Teckla, and IMO, anyway, it makes an interesting change of pace.

(I found it quite - surprisingly! - pleasantly undemanding, for a Brust novel.)

[identity profile] rysmiel.livejournal.com 2008-10-28 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Teckla is like not a whole book, though. Teckla and parts of Phoenix make a complete story to my mind.

[identity profile] hawkwing-lb.livejournal.com 2008-11-05 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Agreed.

[identity profile] ossuarian.livejournal.com 2008-10-27 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
To Reign in Hell might be my favorite book ever. I'd like Brust to take up something new, but the Vlad Taltos series stands up pretty well. I met Brust about twelve years ago at a Boiled in Lead concert in Albuquerque.