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The Lord of Castle Black
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5 out of 5 stars
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5 out of 5 stars
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very satisfying
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 311
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4 out of 5 stars
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Tiassa; Different but Relevant
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Hawk
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- Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 411
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 379
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Story5 out of 5 stars 375
Years ago, Vlad Taltos came from the East, to make his way as a human amidst the impossibly tall, fantastically long-lived natives of the Dragaeran Empire. He joined the Jhereg, the Dragaeran House (of which there are seventeen) that handles the Empire's vices: gambling, rackets, organized crime. He became a professional assassin. He was good at it. But that was then, before Vlad and the Jhereg became mortal enemies. For years, Vlad has run from one end of the Empire to the other, avoiding the Jhereg assassins who pursue him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Feels more like the earlier novels
- By Kat Hooper on 03-20-15
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Dzur
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- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
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- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 302
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 304
Vlad Taltos, short-statured, short-lived human in an Empire of tall, long-lived Dragaerans, has always had to keep his wits about him. Long ago, he made a place for himself as a captain of the Jhereg, the noble house that runs the rackets in the great imperial city of Adrilankha. But love, revolution, betrayal, and revenge ensued, and for years now Vlad has been a man on the run, struggling to stay a step ahead of the Jhereg who would kill him without hesitation.
Now Vlad's back in Adrilankha. The rackets he used to run are now under the control of the mysterious "Left Hand of the Jhereg" - a secretive cabal of women who report to no man.
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5 out of 5 stars
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don't read if hungry.
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 273
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 274
House Jhereg, Dragaera's organized crime syndicate, is still hunting Vlad Taltos. There's a big price on his head in Dragaera City. Then he hears disturbing news. Aliera - longtime friend, sometime ally - has been arrested by the Empire on a charge of practicing elder sorcery, a capital crime. It doesn't make sense. Everybody knows Aliera's been dabbling in elder sorcery for ages. Why is the Empire down on her now? Why aren't her powerful friends - Morrolan, Sethra, the Empress Zerika - coming to her rescue? And most to the point, why has she utterly refused to do anything about her own defense?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Vlad
- By JG on 08-06-18
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Issola
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 363
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 333
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Okay, so maybe I've been living in the woods too long, where you can't even get a decent cup of klava first thing in the morning. So who should turn up but Lady Teldra, the courtly servant of my old friend the Dragonlord Morrolan? Teldra wants my help, because Morrolan and Aliera have disappeared, and according to Sethra Lavode, it looks like they may be in the hands of the Jenoine. Do I want to mess with them? The guys who made this place? And I thought I had problems before...Oh well, what's a little cosmic battle?
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3 out of 5 stars
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Missing section!
- By Rochelle on 03-18-13
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Taltos
- Vlad Taltos, Book 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 435
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Lord Vlad Taltos returns in the prequel to Jhereg, Yendi and Teckla. In this fantastic adventure, listeners learn what really happened when Vlad found himself walking the Paths of the Dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Vlad's begining in the Organization
- By Ron on 08-22-12
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Dragon
- Vlad Taltos, Book 8
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 344
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 308
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Marching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say. After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade I know best - killing people for a living - suddenly I'm in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Worse, I'm right in the middle of a apocalyptic battle between two sorcerous armies, and everyone expects me to play a role they won't explain. All I've got between me and the worst kind of death is my wits. Oh, and a smart-mouthed winged lizard.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Novel Much Better than the Audiobook
- By Wade on 03-17-13
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Phoenix
- Vlad Taltos, Book 5
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 7 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 392
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 349
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 353
When the Demon-Goddess saves him from a certain death, Vlad must pay her back with his professional services as an assassin.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Fantastic Transitory Point for the Protagonist
- By Trevor on 10-31-12
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Orca
- Vlad Taltos, Book 7
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark, Angele Masters
- Length: 9 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 327
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 295
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 295
With the help of his two jhereg, sorcerer and former assassin-for-hire Vlad Taltos takes on the corrupt House of the Orca as he sets out to uncover a huge financial scandal.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Two great narrators for the price of one
- By Andy on 10-20-12
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Yendi
- Vlad Taltos, Book 2
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 671
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 599
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 609
In which Vlad Taltos and his Jhereg learn how the love of a good woman can turn a cold-blooded killer into a real mean SOB.... Vlad tells the story of his early days in the House Jhereg, how he found himself in a Jhereg war, and how he fell in love with the wonderful woman, Yendi, who killed him.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Prequel
- By Ron on 08-20-12
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Jhereg
- Vlad Taltos, Book 1
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,520
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Vlad Taltos, a mobster and assassin in the magical metropolis of Adrilankha, is given the largest contract of his career, but the job is even more complicated than he expects.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dragons, Assassins, and Intrigue
- By Don Gilbert on 08-16-12
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Jhegaala
- Vlad Taltos, Book 11
- By: Steven Brust
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- Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 292
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 257
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Fresh from the collapse of his marriage, and with the criminal Jhereg organization out to eliminate him, Vlad decides to hide out among his relatives in faraway Fenario. All he knows about them is that their family name is Merss and that they live in a papermaking industrial town called Burz. At first Burz isn’t such a bad place, though the paper mill reeks to high heaven. But the longer he stays there, the stranger it becomes. No one will tell him where to find his relatives.
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Athyra
- Vlad Taltos, Book 6
- By: Steven Brust
- Narrated by: Bernard Setaro Clark
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 297
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 300
Vlad Taltos is very good at killing people. That, combined with two faithful companions and a talent for witchcraft, makes him an assassin par excellence. But lately his heart just hasn't been in his work, so he decides to retire. Unfortunately, old enemies have scores to settle with Vlad. So much for retirement!
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4 out of 5 stars
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A new point of view, not such a bad thing
- By Trevor on 11-30-12
Publisher's Summary
With his best-selling novel The Phoenix Guards, Steven Brust took readers to a time a thousand years before the events of his popular Vlad Taltos novels. Its sequel, Five Hundred Years After, was hailed by Science Fiction Chronicle as the best fantasy novel of the year.
Now Brust has returned to the Khaavren epic, first with last year's The Paths of the Dead, and now with its direct continuation, The Lord of Castle Black, a novel that gives Vlad Taltos and Khaavren fans alike a new look at one of Brust's most popular characters, the Dragonlord Morrolan. Along the way, we'll also encounter swordplay, intrigues, quests, battles, romance, snappy dialogue, and the missing heir to the Imperial Throne. It's an old-fashioned adventure, moving at a 21st-century pace.
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- 10-07-19
Book 2 of the Khaavren Romances.
This was a fun and absorbing book to listen to. I enjoyed it thoroughly and I highly recommend.