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A review by _b_a_l_
Master Assassins by Robert V.S. Redick
4.0
The bad: that cover.
The good: everything else.
Seriously though - complicated and nuanced fantasy of the best kind. And some near perfect bits:
"Her name, Ariqina, will be the word that dances on the tip of his tongue, the clear note above the harangues and recitations, the sour trumpets, the curses and cackling and threats, Ariqina, the name that stitches all the scraps of him together into something he admires, something worth the trouble to recall."
"And suddenly, the sky is full of shooting stars. They scatter and flash like scarlet minnows; they skip and go dark and blaze again; they trickle earthward like rain on glass. For an instant, he is aware of nothing but their beauty, a heaven strange and infinite and open."
The good: everything else.
Seriously though - complicated and nuanced fantasy of the best kind. And some near perfect bits:
"Her name, Ariqina, will be the word that dances on the tip of his tongue, the clear note above the harangues and recitations, the sour trumpets, the curses and cackling and threats, Ariqina, the name that stitches all the scraps of him together into something he admires, something worth the trouble to recall."
"And suddenly, the sky is full of shooting stars. They scatter and flash like scarlet minnows; they skip and go dark and blaze again; they trickle earthward like rain on glass. For an instant, he is aware of nothing but their beauty, a heaven strange and infinite and open."