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Jhereg, by Steven Brust
Sep. 10th, 2015 08:57 pmIdk, I've read this book before and decided to reread it to remind myself of what happens before maybe attempting to continue in this series and...this book is not nearly as good as I had remembered it being.
It's just very much a dude book, in a way it's hard for me to put a finger on because it's not actively terrible about female characters which is one of my usual main dude-book indicators. But the whole thing exuded DUDE at me very strongly. And I mostly just found it kinda boring. It got a bit exciting right at the very end once things actually start HAPPENING instead of just people talking about things that are happening/need to be happening. But that still doesn't really make up for the rest of the book being boring. Does the series improve from here? I've heard good things about the series in general!
It's just very much a dude book, in a way it's hard for me to put a finger on because it's not actively terrible about female characters which is one of my usual main dude-book indicators. But the whole thing exuded DUDE at me very strongly. And I mostly just found it kinda boring. It got a bit exciting right at the very end once things actually start HAPPENING instead of just people talking about things that are happening/need to be happening. But that still doesn't really make up for the rest of the book being boring. Does the series improve from here? I've heard good things about the series in general!
