Tsalmoth
A Vlad Taltos Novel
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4.5 • 53 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Tsalmoth is the next installment in Steven Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos series—hold on to your hats and get ready for another swashbuckling adventure!
First comes love. Then comes marriage…
Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may just be better than he is at the Game. Women like this don’t come along every day and no way is he passing up a sure bet.
So a wedding is being planned. Along with a shady deal gone wrong and a dead man who owes Vlad money. Setting up the first and trying to deal with the second is bad enough. And then bigger powers decide that Vlad is the perfect patsy to shake the power structure of the kingdom.
More's the pity that his soul is sent walkabout to do it.
How might Vlad get his soul back and have any shot at a happy ending? Well, there’s the tale…
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Brust's wise-cracking crime boss and witch Vlad Taltos returns for an exciting 14th fantasy noir replete with murder, magic, and love (after The Baron of Magister Valley). Vlad is a rare Easterner (read: human) living in the Dragaeran (read: elf) Empire, and he's bought his way into the criminal House of the Jhereg. Brust's series moves around on the timeline of Vlad's life, and this installment fills in some of his early adventures while he is still a low-level boss engaged to fellow Easterner and assassin Cawti. Someone has killed a member of the house of Tsalmoth who owed Vlad 800 imperials, and Vlad hopes to find a way to recoup his loss. In Vlad's hands, this mission becomes characteristically complicated: before the tale is over, the sorceresses of the Left Hand of the Jhereg become involved; Vlad (temporarily) becomes a demon; and the succession of the House of Tsalmoth comes into question. In between all the chaos, he and Cawti plan their wedding. Vlad's narration is cocky and quick-witted as ever, and it's a joy to revisit his usual costars, among them his strangely unnoticeable Jhereg employee, Kragar; his powerful Dragonlord friends Morrolan, Aliera, and Sethra Lavode; and his familiar, Loiosh. Series fans won't want to miss this.
Customer Reviews
Love it
Another hit from Brust here told a little differently than previous ones in the series. I loved it as I have all the others. BUT!!! There a timeline issue, Noish-pa supposedly didn’t meet Teldra until Phoenix. Otherwise perfect!
Fun
Classic Brust with lots of fun dialogue
Long time fan
I’ve loved the Vlad books since I was a teenager, now my son has been reading them with me for the past few years and it’s been great. If I’m being honest I was a bit hesitant to get excited about another trip to the past for Vlad (only because I’m so interested where his current story will go and ultimately end) but as usual I was not disappointed. Mr. Brust is a remarkable storyteller and I enjoyed every minute of this book. Pick it up I have no doubt you’ll enjoy it too!