Lyorn

A Vlad Taltos Novel

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Steven Brust: Lyorn (2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

English language

Published 2024 by Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom.

ISBN:
978-0-7653-8286-3
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4 stars (1 review)

3 editions

reviewed Lyorn by Steven Brust (Vlad Taltos, #17)

Not one to begin the series on

4 stars

Lyorn is the seventeenth and latest of Steven Brust’s fantasy novels about Vlad Taltos and his world of Dragaera. I’m not sure quite when I first read Jhereg, the first in the series, but judging by my memories of which library I checked it out from and the room I read it in, it must have been 1992 or 1993. Over the years I’ve read all the other novels (including another Dragaera series not featuring Vlad), many of them over and over again. They are books I keep repeatedly coming to, because I enjoy them and they reward rereading. I was never not going to read Lyorn.

Well, I’ve read it now. It was okay. These are just some initial thoughts which I haven’t thought about deeply.

I didn’t feel like the setting worked particularly well; it seemed forced like it had been “oh here’s a neat idea” …