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5.0 out of 5 starsIf you love books, if you love fantasy, if you love words; you really should read this one.
Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021
I read Game of Thrones and its sequels as the books were published. They were SO DAMNED GOOD I had no qualms waiting for the time it took to write and publish each one. They deserved that time. They deserved my patience. Such a series is incredibly rare.
I never thought I'd find another, but this week I did.
"The Blacktongue Thief" by Christopher Buehlman is such a book. The world and culture building are so deeply thorough and the characters defined by them so intriguing that I couldn't not turn the next page except when I had to get up and pace BECAUSE OF WHAT JUST HAPPENED! Just like GoT.
The action is exceptionally thrilling, the storyline bends in maneuvers you cannot see coming with much of it presented with such subtlety you have to stop and wonder if what you think just happened actually did. So you go back, and yes, HOLY SHYTE THAT HAPPENED! And then more pacing because who can sit still taking all THAT in? And what could possibly come next!?!
On top of all that, Beuhlman’s prose is flat-out beautiful. Seriously, this book is wonderful. But it just came out, and it's the first one. So I have to wait. And, I will, because book series like this don't come around very often.
I promise you, if you love books, if you love fantasy, if you love words; you really should read this one.