Vlad feelings, continued

I slept and read a lot this weekend, and apparently I really needed it. I've now reread Jhereg and Issola, and I'm working on Dragon. (I love that the series can be read in any order. Very handy when you want to read certain books and not others.)

Reading Taltos and then Jhereg, in that order, was really interesting because I did actually find that Taltos is a more sympathetic initial introduction to Vlad than you get in Jhereg, nominally the first book of the series. Jhereg is excellent and does eventually get into the aspect that really sold me on Vlad and his world, which is how much of the book revolves around loyalty and friendship. (I remember having gotten the impression, from what little I had osmosed about the series, that Vlad was a lone-wolf hero type, and he is literally the opposite of that.) But you also spend the first few chapters watching him plan a murder, which admittedly could be a bit offputting if that's the first time you meet the character.

Meanwhile ... my edition of Issola might be missing some lines. It's the omnibus edition with Issola and Dragon, which I hadn't actually read before - I originally got the books from the library and then bought the omnibuses (omnibi?) because I wanted to own them. Can someone who has the non-omnibus version of Issola tell me if there is something missing here?

( Cut for image - also some spoiler talk about Issola )

Genprompt bingo card

I requested a card from genprompt_bingo, because I see the words "bingo" and "card", and all my restraint and common sense goes straight out the window.

Character Study	Trauma	Season of Mists (Autumn Colours, Sensations, Activities and Festivals)	Food, cooking and mealtimes	Horror
Dreams and Nightmares	Pride	Reincarnation	Writing, Text and Quotes	Electromagnetic Waves
Pirate AU	Feudal Ties / Master and Servant	Wild Card	The North Wind doth Blow	Fix-its
The Bridge	Sunrise / Sunset	Freckles	Logic and Numbers	Winners and Losers
Terrible	Zombies	Ritual Marks and Body Decorations	Humiliation	Information is given off the record

I honestly don't know what to do with this one. XD I liked frith_in_thorns' card so much better than mine! All of the lines have at least one square that's going to be really hard for me, or downright impossible, or so vague as to be difficult to write for that alone (like "Fixit"). Hmmm.