I Read Books: Orca

Books Read in 2018: Orca by Steven K Brust

This is the 7th Book in Brust’s Vlad Taltos series and I do not recommend starting here. In the previous book Savn saved Vlad from an undead wizard but had his mind damaged in the process. Vlad finds a witch who can help, but she needs help in return as the bank has foreclosed on her cottage. Vlad gets his friend Kiera the thief to dig into it and they discover a web of corruption and bankruptcy that goes to the top of the Empire.

A solid instalment of the series that highlights yet another aspect of the Empire with all the bad it does, often in an almost good cause. Also there’s a surprise reveal that I was underwhelmed with as I did not really care about the characters involved.

Read This: If you’re into Vlad Taltos
Don’t Read This: Start with Jhereg for a bit of low and gritty High Fantasy.
Linky Linky: Orca on GoodReads, Jhereg on GoodReads