The Blacktongue Thief

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That’s not to say I don’t enjoy books with low-key subtle magic because I do, but on the other hand I love to see the fantasy genre celebrated for its fundamental use of magic and myth, to see it revel in it.

She had a round shield on her back, a gorget to save her throat a cutting, and if I didn’t miss my guess, she wore light chain mail under her shirt.If you weren’t, you’d have to be a drunk, a foreigner, a suicide, or some sloppy marriage of the three. The day a magicker peeks into the thought of commoners for some thin-skinned duke or king will be a bad day. The Blacktongue Thief is fated to steal a lot of reader’s hearts with its charm, humor, intensity, and unrelenting fun.

I hope though, that unlike Martin and Rothfuss, we get an ending to Kinch's story, because I NEED TO KNOW what happens next, (and the sooner the better! Until he pays those debts, he's forced to wear a tattoo on his cheek that allows everyone and their brother to smack him in the face with no retaliation.Before I dived into this, I heard it commonly likened to Kings of the Wyld, which is one of my favourite books ever.