I've met katabases I didn't particularly care for, but I wouldn't expect Steven Brust to write one.
especially if you didn't bounce off Brust's style in Dragon. (I gather that the series' blend of high fantasy and detective/mafia/noirish tropes is not everyone's cup of tea.)
Nah. I've been reading less high fantasy in recent years than I grew up on, but I am certainly not allergic to it.
Anyway, it's a good one to read on its own because it's unusually self-contained for this series, as it takes place chronologically before most of the other books, and several of the main characters meet for the first time in this book.
I'll check it out when I get the chance! Being dropped into the middle with Dragon, for what it's worth, worked out just fine. That one also had a temporally braided structure as I recall.
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I've met katabases I didn't particularly care for, but I wouldn't expect Steven Brust to write one.
especially if you didn't bounce off Brust's style in Dragon. (I gather that the series' blend of high fantasy and detective/mafia/noirish tropes is not everyone's cup of tea.)
Nah. I've been reading less high fantasy in recent years than I grew up on, but I am certainly not allergic to it.
Anyway, it's a good one to read on its own because it's unusually self-contained for this series, as it takes place chronologically before most of the other books, and several of the main characters meet for the first time in this book.
I'll check it out when I get the chance! Being dropped into the middle with Dragon, for what it's worth, worked out just fine. That one also had a temporally braided structure as I recall.