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A review by sling
Sweet Silver Blues by Glen Cook
4.0
Sweet Silver Blues has been one of my go-to comfort books since I first read it, in 1987. In fact, I still that same copy.
I have enjoyed the series' hard-boiled mystery aspect transplanted to a complex fantasy world.
In this book, Garrett takes on a case to find a misplaces inheratrix but he keeps tripping over his past. Perhaps the coincidences are a bit too coincidental and perhaps you never get a good understanding of the object who drives the story but I can forgive that because the building blocks of the series are here: the characters, the setting, the protagonist's characteristics, the language and dialogue.
One thing I have also always enjoyed is the setting - Tunfaire and the Cantard loom so large, they nearly make for additional characters and add a richness to the background without becoming the story.
I have enjoyed the series' hard-boiled mystery aspect transplanted to a complex fantasy world.
In this book, Garrett takes on a case to find a misplaces inheratrix but he keeps tripping over his past. Perhaps the coincidences are a bit too coincidental and perhaps you never get a good understanding of the object who drives the story but I can forgive that because the building blocks of the series are here: the characters, the setting, the protagonist's characteristics, the language and dialogue.
One thing I have also always enjoyed is the setting - Tunfaire and the Cantard loom so large, they nearly make for additional characters and add a richness to the background without becoming the story.