Vlad: Iorich (Series #12) (Paperback)

from lorax

This was a disappointment. (Disappointing Brust is still Brust, of course, but this wasn't up to what he can do.) It felt like a return to the earlier and shallower Vlad novels; Vlad's in Adrilankha, all the usual suspects make appearances (including Kiera as Kiera), but none of the larger issues...

from Herenya

Iorich (In which Vlad must seek justice - but not too much of it) is set about eight years after Jhegaala and four years after Dzur. Vlad is back in Adrilankha because a friend has been arrested. Vlad is faced with a tangled web of mysteries (and also the idiosyncrasies of the Empire's legal syst...

from TheDivineOomba

This is getting back to the original series - where Vlad is out to solve a mystery without angering too many people :) So when Aliera is arrested for practising high magic (a fact known by everyone), Vlad has to figure out what is the real reason for this and what does it have to do with a few un...

from DWWilkin

Vlad Taltos is an interesting character who now is getting long in the tooth. With his pet/familiar Jhereg Lorisch they are a Laurel and Hardy comedy act where their banter is striving to achieve an ease and familiarity of Beatrice and Benedict but falls short of that mark and we can see that Bru...

from JeremyPreacher

This is the newest one, both in terms of publication date and internal chronology, and while it wasn't all that exciting plot-wise, it sets up some things that I suspect will be important later. I don't think I can actually verbalize the appeal of these twisty little books anyway.