Walked off with it while a mate argued with a music student about whether his singing at a tavern had been in key. I’ve struggled with how to start this review of Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief because I want to give it the recognition it deserves. I have seen the hype this book has been getting and after being done with it I can tell you that it deserves every ounce of hype it can get! To say I was hyped for this book would be a complete understatement, for several months I’ve been desperate to get my hands on an ARC to discover just what all the early furore was about.

I was lucky enough to be provided by an ARC from the publisher through Edelweiss and as usual, that does not affect my opinions on this one. Prefiero no decir nada del resto es que joder es para disfrutarlo de verdad mi recomendación preciadas amistades si os fiais es que no solo lo metáis en la saca o lo subáis puestos, leedlo en cuanto podáis.The Takers Guild send Kinch on a secret mission, for which he sets off with his new blind cat, (rao), to save himself and perhaps the world. If anyone wants a lighter read in an interesting fantasy world that still has tension and danger and depth, this is the one for you. After recently finishing a re-read of The Lesser Dead, narrated by this author, I knew I had to get the audio of his latest book: THE BLACKTONGUE THIEF.

I was charmed, often left dazed or horrified, but thoroughly entertained from the very beginning to the very end. We're talking giants and goblins, vast oceans filled with Kraken and other deadly creatures, and that's just to start. It's small scale in terms of fantasy, not epic in terms of the plot, but still very much looking at a bigger picture. This book is incredibly fast-paced, and it feels like there is a new adventure in each chapter, which does not leave the reader any time to contemplate the broader scope of this story and world. I was a big fan of the protagonist, the world-building, the writing and I am already looking forward to book 2!

For example, a village with one mud road, one tavern that’s really just the back of a fat man’s house, and a dying ox everyone shares at plowing time will have an Allgod church. Sus enemigos en común y una hueste de amenazas bastante insólitas que los dos enfrentan, empujan al ladrón y a la caballera a embarcarse en un enorme periplo de épicas dimensiones. I mean, even in my interview with Nicholas Eames himself, during his praises towards this book as the one book to definitely read this year, he agreed on these comparisons. Monarchy is a bad system because, no matter how smart you are, you can still squirt a moron out of your plumbing.