Title: Amateur and Badly Placed
Product review: Brust's style in Jhereg is conversational, sarcastic and annoying. The main character's best friend, a tiny dragon with poisonous venom, exists to make sarcastic wisecracks that only the main character, Vlaad, can hear. On the whole, the chracters are uninteresting and flat. Vlaad is supposed to be an assassin, but he doesn't assassinate anyone in this book. The book also falls into the amateur fantasy novel trap: consant allusions to previous events and/or other people and locations that sound infinitely more interesting than the goings-on depicted. Brust's world is hardly as interesting as the multitude of other post-Tolkien fantasy universes; there is little to differentiate it from all the rest.Badly placed because it seems like the fifth or sixth novel in the series, not the opening.I give him two stars for effort.
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