Comments | hamsterwoman: Reading roundup: Tiassa (and some Vlad rereads)

hamsterwoman

Reading roundup: Tiassa (and some Vlad rereads)

Apr 27, 2011 18:40

Bunch of stuff at work, bunch of stuff at home (nothing terrible, but... stuff that occuppies mental real estate, if you know what I mean), so I really needed to take a break and think about something other than RL for a bit. Thus:

26. Steven Brust, Dzur (reread) -- still makes me hungry. Still not my favorite book plot-wise, though I was able to ( Read more... )

dragaera, reading, a: steven brust, taltos

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q99 April 28 2011, 20:02:20 UTC

-(though I still wonder about how Kragar knows Mario; he says they met 90 years ago and a mutual friend (implied? to be Aliera) introduced them. Huh ( ... )

hamsterwoman April 28 2011, 20:59:52 UTC

I do think Vlad's gotten a bit too lucky in who he 'happened' to know. Kiera makes sense, and we know how Morrolan and Aliera met him, but his Lt just happening to be Mario's contact...? Ehhh, kinda feels like a rare misstep by Brust.It's definitely very odd... It's probably that Kragar's Dragon background is somehow significant (I forget which book it's in, but he and Morrolan and Aliera had met before Vlad introduced them, and there's a whole posturing "You'll forgive me if I won't bow" from Morrolan), and we don't know anything about that. I hope him knowing Mario is explained (or at least retconned) somehow, and maybe fits into someone's (Sethra's? Verra's?) overall plan for Vlad. But for now, it does seem awfully convenient and underexplained ( ... )

q99 April 29 2011, 00:50:42 UTC

- Which I always thought was kind of weird, but I guess she needs to compartamentalize it pretty strictly to keep up something like that long term ( ... )

hamsterwoman April 29 2011, 03:47:39 UTC

It much lowers the chance of Vlad making a slip when it matters, I figure. Also, she *likes* being Kiera with Vlad.

Ah, good points on both counts!

Part 3, the mystery becomes more interesting once you know how it ends, I find.

I could see that, yeah. And the thing about Paarfi's style also.

Though it wasn't him who arrested her- it was Norathar.

Ah, I'd forgotten that! I bet it's because Khaarven resigned out of protest again, since it seems pretty clear from 500YA that arresting important people is Khaavren's job XP

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