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Original Title:	Taltos (Vlad Taltos, #4)
ISBN:	0441182003 (ISBN13: 9780441182008)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Vlad Taltos #4, Dragaera
Characters:	Vlad Taltos, Loiosh, Morollan, Aliera, Sethra Lavode, Kiera, Kragar

Taltos (Vlad Taltos #4) Paperback | Pages: 181 pages

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Title	:	Taltos (Vlad Taltos #4)
Author	:	Steven Brust
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 181 pages
Published	:	March 1st 1988 by Ace Books (first published 1988)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Journey to the land of the dead. All expenses paid!

Not my idea of an ideal vacation, but this was work. After all, even an assassin has to earn a living.

The trouble is, everyone knows that a living human cannot walk the Paths of the Dead, and return, alive, to the land of men.

But being an Easterner is not exactly like being human, by Dragaeran standards anyway. Thus, the rule doesn't apply to me... I hope.

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I read this immediately after Jhereg since I didn't have book 2 available at the time, and it's chronologically the earliest book in the series. Unfortunately it was a much weaker book for a few reasons.First, it's a prequel, which isn't always a bad thing, but it seems to exist only to explain how Vlad becomes friends with some of his cohorts from the first book, unless there were some other important revelations I missed by reading it out of order.Second, there are two different prequel

The one where Vlad meets Morrolan, Sethra, and Aliera.

So after the soul-crushing beauty of Teckla, we now get a tale from Vlad's past: What exactly was he doing on the Paths of the Dead when he was younger? First, I have to say, I'm REALLY baffled by the cover, as Vlad is ALWAYS called "Whiskers" by the Draegereans, who can't grow facial hair, and it's always a thing that Vlad has a mustache. I get that he's younger in this book, but I could swear that his mustache is mentioned once or twice (certainly we flash back at times to him being VERY

This is actually a solid 3.5 stars. What do you call a prequel of a prequel? We're heading into Vlad's personal past again, but this time only a few years after his days as a tavern owner.The story is the most straightforward with the least digressions of any of Brust's novels I've read, except during the last third of the novel when I was forced to shift back and forth between current action and flashback regularly. Both sequences were interesting on their own, but something about reading them

Compared to the previous book, this one is awesome! It's the funniest so far, very witty and gives us a lot of insight on how the Vlad we know actually came to be. It's a solid 4 for me, would've been a 4.5, but the paragraphs at the beginning of every chapter were kinda annoying for me.

This was a fun read, Vlad is quickly becoming one of my favourite characters.

The highly anticipated backstory that encouraged me to continue the series after the disaster that was Teckla. Vlad goes to the Hell and it's just as exciting as it sounds, with deadly conflicts and goddesses being bitches, the main story being interrupted with Vlad's extreme youth, from his childhood to his first Morganti murder.The strange relationship between Vlad and Morrolan is amazingly written: there isn't and there cannot be any instant bonding between a Duke of House Dragon and some