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The blacktongue thief review5/21/2023 ![]() ![]() Kinch finds himself assigned to accompany Galva as she goes on A Quest™, and so the two of them roam across the land, getting into and out of trouble along the way.Īnd there is a lot of trouble. Kinch is a desperate man– he’s basically got magical student loans to pay to the kingdom spanning Thieves Guild, which gives the book a depressingly relatable hook right off the bat. And, of course, Kinch soon finds himself partnering with Galva, a wandering swordswoman who’s not quite as direct a mirror of Fahfrd. ![]() He’s a hood-wearing, dagger-toting, magic-tinkering thief in the vein of Lieber’s Grey Mouser (just without the problematic sex bits). ![]() The book is snarkily narrated in first person by Kinch Na Shannack, the titular black-tongued thief. That pulpy influence pervades The Blacktongue Thief, most notably in the central characters. It’s actually not a very common combination nowadays (not that I’ve seen, anyway), despite the pulpy foundations of both genres in old magazines like Weird Tales. I started reading Christopher Buehlman’s The Blacktongue Thief back in October, as it actually came up under the ‘horror’ tag as I was browsing through my library app, though it also had the ‘fantasy’ tag listed as well. ![]()
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