Issola

, #9

mass market paperback, 256 pages

English language

Published Dec. 14, 2002 by Tor Fantasy.

ISBN:
978-0-8125-8917-7
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4 stars (2 reviews)

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reviewed Issola by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos, #9)

A book mostly about, courtesy, of all things.

4 stars

We are now in a run on these books where the quality just does not dip until Vallista. This, like the book before, is another strong 4.5. Ostensibly this should be the most straightforward 'big fantasy' book of the series. Vlad is still running around in the wilderness avoiding the fantasy mafia, two of his powerful friends go missing and the most unlikely minor character comes to get him to help. Cosmic powers type shenanigans ensue. Gods and monsters battle for the fate of the world. Except, Brust skips by that lot as if to say, boring (because with Fantasy as a whole, it has largely become boring). I mean there's also a locked room thing going on with various Zelazny/Dumas type theatrics there but that's still just a side issue. That minor character that comes to the fore? She is all about courtesy, and courtesy is the meat of …

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  • Fiction - Fantasy
  • Fantasy
  • Fantasy - General
  • Fiction / Fantasy / General
  • Fantasy fiction