Oh dear, the end of your review made me sad. I enjoyed Swordspoint and was thinking about picking up this book too, but maybe it's better that I went for Kushner's other book, the Fall of Kings? :/
I haven't read The Fall of the Kings, so I can't speak to it. . . I would recommend reading The Privilege of the Sword though, as other than the last 20 pages the thing was frickin' brilliant, and if I had KNOWN the last 20 pages were going to turn out the way they did I wouldn't have been so upset by them. Just. . . be careful if you're absolutely loving the middle that you don't set your heart on being able to shout from the rooftops "THIS IS THE BEST BOOK EVER!" at the end, y'know? ;)
But I have heard that The Fall of the Kings doesn't fill in any of the stuff that happens to the characters in Swordspoint, so if you want to know how things with Alec and St. Vier turned out, you're stuck with The Privilege of the Sword. And really, 20 bad pages out of 460 is a pretty darn good percentage of greatness. . . it's just unfortunate that they're the LAST 20 pages.
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But I have heard that The Fall of the Kings doesn't fill in any of the stuff that happens to the characters in Swordspoint, so if you want to know how things with Alec and St. Vier turned out, you're stuck with The Privilege of the Sword. And really, 20 bad pages out of 460 is a pretty darn good percentage of greatness. . . it's just unfortunate that they're the LAST 20 pages.
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