The Blacktongue Thief

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And that's the true story of how on the tenth day of Vintners, I ended up betting my arse on a card game in a sewer, under an army of murdering giants at the very top of the wicked world. Now Kinch is an awesome character because he is hilarious but he is also three dimensional and you can’t help it but to care about him. The ending sequence was pulse-pounding, and the conclusion + the acknowledgment was satisfying to read.

They would have seen that getting trounced on the White Road was the end of our none-too-jolly band and that the archers who ran away, being brother and sister, were loyal only to each other and likely to help themselves to whatever we’d left behind before scampering off to the next adventure. Politics between the societies, the existence of witches, kings and queens, and the sad loss of horses, populate these pages. El Ladrón de Lengua Negra" del autor Christopher Buehlman es una historia ingeniosa y con un tono de humor sobresaliente a través de un ladrón aparentemente sin importancia atrapado en las maquinaciones más amplias de este mundo que es una mezcla entre señor de los anillos y reyes de la tierra salvaje. The female characters in the book were well written too, they were not sexualized and they were stronger even than the male characters. The Blacktongue Thief was one of my favorite fantasy novels of the last few years - epic in scope, funny, and nail-bitingly tense.He’s just such a lovable main character; snarky, sarcastic, continuously smile in the face of adversity. The narration is exclusively from Kinch’s point of view but when you get to know Kinch, you won’t ask for another POV! There’s a brutal reality to these wars, and to the goblins themselves, devastating in their effects both personal and worldwide. When you mix a fantastical surreal world, with multiple layers of humour and quirky characters, you’re onto a winning book for me.

Alas, I owed the Takers Guild so much money for my training that I found myself squatting in the Forest of Orphans with these thick bastards, hoping to rob somebody the old-fashioned way. Whilst reading my main desire is to feel attached to characters and feel that they are distinctive, and I definitely found that here. En este mundo, como comprobarán en el transcurso de sus aventuras, el honor es un lujo que no está al alcance de todos. A friendly game of "Pull" or an assassin trying to escape from a nightmare are very vague descriptions of some truly scary moments.What held my attention, from the first page to the last, was how smooth the reading experience felt while blending elements of brisk pacing, loads of snark, punchy dialogue, stylized characters, and unrelenting scenes of gaga mayhem. I’ve seen this book talked about for almost a year now (writing this as of 10/23/20) and it still has seven (7) months to go before it is released into the world. But where this world of beasts and magic delivers a couple awesome moments, sadly, its very minimal character build up and constant thrown together scenes that left no air to breathe between and no motivation to continue, I feel as though it never quite rises to the lofty goals it sets for itself. I had to pay closer attention to tags to figure out who was speaking because I couldn’t always tell by the voices alone. Si que puede parecer la típica historia de un grupo variopinto que tienen que ir en busca de algún tesoro o de alguien pero en como se cuenta la historia gana mucho.

The Blacktongue Thief is told in first person, with Kinch giving us an intimate account of all that happened to him from the day he met Galva. I glanced left and saw Pagran bent over, covered in blood, but I think it was Frella’s—she was bleeding enough for both of them, spattering the ground from a vicious underarm cut that looked to run elbow to tit. Buehlman brings an incredible voice, tone, style and dry humor to thief first person POV that will endear you almost from the beginning. After a botched robbery causes most of the band of thieves he was working with to flee or worse, our man finds himself receiving instructions from the guild.Only that instead of being the hilarious, darkly delicious, fast-paced tale Evil Overlord is, The Blacktongue Thief is boring as fish, packed with useless blah blah blah blah, and slow-paced as shrimp. I've touched on the humour and the fantasy elements which are both well-worked throughout, but it's absolutely worth noting that some of The Blacktongue Thief's standout moments are horror-tinged sections that play on the mind long after the eye has read those chapters.