OK, I'm duly impressed that reading Phoenix right after Taltos without any of the other books actually works! Both that it makes sense, and that you were affected by the Vlad and Cawti stuff without ever having met Cawti or seeing anything of their relationship before this book. I know Brust was always trying to write these so they could be read as stand-alones, but I hadn't realized he had succeeded to this extent. Very cool!
I love Loiosh, both as a character (and his dynamic with Vlad, which is honestly one of my favorite relationships in the series) and just the idea of Loiosh, a bird-of-prey sized telepathic dragon, I mean!
Probably an annoying character if he appears in every book but for this quantity, so much entertainment.
He does not! :) And AHAHA, Aibynn -- I found him really annoying the first couple of times I read Phoenix, and then after a while it mellowed out into amusement, and now I almost like him in that book XD
Jhereg, Yendi, and Tekla so I'm reading those next!! I'm looking forward to finding out more about the world since I think these two books are further along in the series.
Further along than Taltos, but all take place between Phoenix (and were written before either).
Anyway, I'm so glad you enjoyed Phoenix as much as you did and are planning to read more! (or maybe already have by now). If you do run into a situation where you want e-copies of a Vlad book that you don't have access to through your libraries, I might be able to help out :) (If we lived in visiting distance of each other, I would have already handed you a stack of books to borrow, so I figure the electronic equivalent is also fine, if it's fine by you :)
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OK, I'm duly impressed that reading Phoenix right after Taltos without any of the other books actually works! Both that it makes sense, and that you were affected by the Vlad and Cawti stuff without ever having met Cawti or seeing anything of their relationship before this book. I know Brust was always trying to write these so they could be read as stand-alones, but I hadn't realized he had succeeded to this extent. Very cool!
I love Loiosh, both as a character (and his dynamic with Vlad, which is honestly one of my favorite relationships in the series) and just the idea of Loiosh, a bird-of-prey sized telepathic dragon, I mean!
Probably an annoying character if he appears in every book but for this quantity, so much entertainment.
He does not! :) And AHAHA, Aibynn -- I found him really annoying the first couple of times I read Phoenix, and then after a while it mellowed out into amusement, and now I almost like him in that book XD
Jhereg, Yendi, and Tekla so I'm reading those next!! I'm looking forward to finding out more about the world since I think these two books are further along in the series.
Further along than Taltos, but all take place between Phoenix (and were written before either).
Anyway, I'm so glad you enjoyed Phoenix as much as you did and are planning to read more! (or maybe already have by now). If you do run into a situation where you want e-copies of a Vlad book that you don't have access to through your libraries, I might be able to help out :) (If we lived in visiting distance of each other, I would have already handed you a stack of books to borrow, so I figure the electronic equivalent is also fine, if it's fine by you :)