The Blacktongue Thief

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His take on the world is also very much appreciated as this is one of the grimmest of the Grimdark fantasy novels I've ever read and without his humor, it would have been a tough read. The world building is great, the story takes place in many places and there are all kind of creatures and magic types that we get to discover. Sarcasmo de asesinos que os harán reír a veces a carcajadas con momentos agridulces que os dejarán sin aliento. With poor Kinch having to pause life at nearly every turn so that someone can smack him across the face- it was difficult not to burst out laughing at times.

This book is incredibly fast-paced, and it feels like there is a new adventure in each chapter, which does not leave the reader any time to contemplate the broader scope of this story and world. It bit at the glaive’s head twice, easily avoiding Pagran’s jab and not seeming to notice my missed arrow—these things don’t move predictably, and at twenty paces, an arrow doesn’t hit the instant it flies. I especially appreciated the fact that Buehlman never resorts to that dreaded gold-plate standard of fantasy, the infodump. I will say that the fact that the author finishing the book with a picture of Luther - the cat who made him fall in love with cats - was pure purrfection. The world just fleshes out so nicely that you can almost smell the scenes and see the oddball characters from various nations.What begins as a sidekick's view of the hero's journey soon blossoms into a finely crafted and highly entertaining ride through a world as monstrous as it is wondrous.

They're the small enemy that you throw a hoard at our heroes so they get a larger kill count and get the readers blood pumping… here they will make it run cold. This allows for a more chaotic mix of magics with lots of imagination and excitement, and a real sense of awe/potential.

I’d like to tell you it had belonged to my da or something, but my da was a sad bastard miner and couldn’t play the arse-horn after a quart of beans and cabbage.

I blame myself for that because there were many new terms and I thought that I needed to remember everything but it was mostly part of Kinch’s humor and I just could not take things more simply. I expected a much darker tone but the author gave voice to one of the funniest characters I ever had the pleasure of reading but not to the point that it gets tiring. I was so scared I half wanted to piss myself, but the difference between the strong and the weak isn’t that the strong don’t piss themselves. Although to me, it won't quite be a best of the year read, it is an admirable and thrilling fantasy debut for Buehlman who has a lot to offer to the world of modern fantasy. Some of my most favourite parts early on in the novel consisted of interactions between the Knight Galva, and Kinch.A friendly game of "Pull" or an assassin trying to escape from a nightmare are very vague descriptions of some truly scary moments. I had a fine fighting knife on the front of my belt; in a tavern fight, it would turn a geezer inside out, but it was useless against chain. Alas, I owed the Takers Guild so much money for my training that I found myself squatting in the Forest of Orphans with these thick bastards, hoping to rob somebody the old-fashioned way.

Tenemos desde goblins, gigantes, alguna bruja, varios ladrones, magos, tatuajes mágicos, monstruos marinos y xD un adorable gato ciego que es una pasada. It was one of the rare books that I MADE time for rather than fitted into the bits and pieces of spare time that come my way.The Spanth would have to stand to meet their charge, and when she did, I would stick her through the knee. It's small scale in terms of fantasy, not epic in terms of the plot, but still very much looking at a bigger picture. The Blacktongue Thief is the first book in Blacktongue trilogy by Buehlman, it is his first high fantasy novel, and from my observation, it is quite likely that this is the most hyped adult fantasy debut of the year. Which is why at the beginning of the novel, we find Kinch in a desperate state, hiding on the edge of a forest, waiting in hopes of stealing a fortune from the next passerby. It works well with the pace of the novel, which is more like UF, but the scope of the worldbuilding is nothing less than epic.