Tsalmoth

Vlad Taltos, Book 16

De: Steven Brust

Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell

Tsalmoth is the next installment in Steven Brust’s bestselling Vlad Taltos series—hold on to your hats and get ready for another swashbuckling adventure!

First comes love. Then comes marriage....

Vlad Taltos is in love. With a former assassin who may just be better than he is at the Game. Women like this don’t come along every day and no way is he passing up a sure bet.

So a wedding is being planned. Along with a shady deal gone wrong and a dead man who owes Vlad money. Setting up the first and trying to deal with the second is bad enough. And then bigger powers decide that Vlad is the perfect patsy to shake the power structure of the kingdom.

More's the pity that his soul is sent walkabout to do it.

How might Vlad get his soul back and have any shot at a happy ending? Well, there’s the tale....

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Happy go lucky hitman

This made me want to go back and re-read the whole series. The Vlad Taltos novels are criminally underappreciated. Brust's knack for description, dialog, and highlighting the internal absurdity of a situation is full on display here. Seeing a younger, more brash Vlad was nice and reminded me of the sharp humor and down to earth fantasy realm that I first fell in love with.

I so want to see him finish this series.

Still worth the listen

After the first half of the book being extremely rough getting used to a new narrator you settle in to the same charm and snark of the rest of the series. I think the new narrator is solid, however characters like kragar and loiosh really lose their charm with his performance. Overall still great to peek back into a time when vlad and cawti were first getting together.

Spectacularly Awful Narrator

I can handle a new Narrator. I can handle a bad narrator. Kevin Stillwell is by far the worst narrator I have ever experienced. Every word drips with pretentious disdain for the listener. I could not finish listening and I LOVE this series.

A series you can register to over and over

One of the most richly layered series you will ever read. on it surface it's filled with daring and daggers, mystery and magic, and clever repartè. And if that's all you want, this will satisfy you thoroughly! But beneath that lies mysteries about fate and power, gods and monsters, and what makes a being "human". And beneath that, is a person wrestling with the problematic structures of his society, of exploitation vs freedom, and of how to function in a societal structure that has been intentionally built to be wrong.

I'm a fan.of the series but this deep in is a terrible time to change narrators.

I was willing to accept that an a new narrator would give different inflections and caidience to characters voices but what he did with Kregar is unforgivable. It Genuinely ruined the book foe me.

Changing narrators is so jarring

It is so difficult to get through this- the voices are all wrong and different from the previous 10+ books. It is very hard to accept. It took me forever to get through this book because I did not like the new voice and tone of characters I had come to know so well.

Another Great Book in a Great Series

This book was awesome. I started reading/listening to Stephen Brust books when I was 13 years old and now 32 years later he’s still my favorite author and this is still my favorite series.

Great story, but so sad to not have the old narrator

Kevin is amazing and honestly does a decent job (except for kragar lol), but I miss Bernard. overall amazing entry!

Different Heart

First the narrator, Kevin isn't a bad narrator and his narration of Brust's other series is really good but it felt all wrong for these characters. Half of the characters sounded like caricatures of cliche stupid people from movies and radio shows. Then odd accent choices for characters that for the last 15 books have been narratored without accents.

As for the story itself, Vlad feels like he is lacking intelligence most of the time. All of a sudden he is getting vocabulary lessons multiple times throughout chapters. I remember in the past he didn't know everything but this felt extreme.
Knowing the ending to this stories start is a little sad but the journey is worth it.

changing who reads a long-standing series should be criminal

I can't take the performance seriously. only a few hours in (due to a road trip) and I'm going to have to finish this one in print