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Books by Steven Brust
Yendi
by Steven Brust
· published 1984 · read 2023-03-15
★★★★★
Prequel to the first book, showing Vlad's beginnings. I continue to be super into the series, and i already know I'll have to re-read it in the end to catch all the connections, the politics, the relationships. Also we see Vlad and Cawti get together here, which, man. All the love. Other than that: The phrasing, the matter-of-fact-ness, the honesty about tensions and things needing time and sheer terror before and after the fact. The friendship. The accounting. Man, I love it. And the relationship stuff is actually sweet, in the sense that Cawti has principles and won't back down just because Vlad is a bit of an idiot sometimes, and is generally cooler than he is without being a manic pixie dream girl. I love this whole book. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.
Jhereg
by Steven Brust
· published 1983 · read 2022-11-11
★★★★☆
Really, really good. Vlad is cool, but more importantly, so is everybody else. There is clearly a lot of worldbuilding to come, but I wasn't bothered by the book dropping a huge reveal with too little context: The whole thing was too fun and satisfying, and made me immediately trust that the author knew what he was doing and would provide proper payoff eventually. Looking forward to inhaling the series. This book is part of the 2022 Backlog Incident.