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library_hungry's review
4.0
A novella, or even a long story, rather than a novel, but if you loved The Innkeeper's Song, you'll love this. A fine adventure of Soukyan, where luck plays as much of a role as skill or wit.
alexandraidonea's review
3.0
I read this in two sittings on the same day - it was lightning-fast and compulsive. I liked it very much - but I didn't love it, and felt the Soukyan of this tale was not the character I'd come to love in The Inkeeper's Song. I needed to know what happened with the plot, with the "end" of his story, and was pleased by the little twists and turns - yet, the contrivances! The ease of it all. I'm glad it was such a short book, for all that, yet after the heart-wrenching length, the stillness, of learning characters' histories in Innkeeper's Song, this felt so rushed and so unsatisfying. Did we learn something important? Perhaps, probably, yes. But it was not what I wanted to learn. Still, it was what Beagle wanted to tell us. I'm glad I read it, I'm glad I got a little more time in the world that Beagle could not help but return to, of all his worlds. I'm going back to Giant Bones today to see what references in this book I missed, and to read in that book another tale of Soukyan and Lal, and if I am lucky, also of my favourite character of all, the fox.
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