_Ky_'s review
The Phoenix Guards (Khaavren Romances, Book 1) by Steven Brust
Both Phoenix Guards and Five Hundred Years After were written as a form of literary jokes. Brust never thought they would be taken seriously, much less become beloved books to those who adored the Dragarean world. The author of the two historic romances, Paarfi of Roundwood, does not believe in a simple turn of phrase. This is easily recognizable in the Chapter titles, such as "Chapter the First: In which the reader is introduced to several characters, whom, in the hopes of the author, they might wish to become better acquainted" or one of the later chapters, which declares "whereby the plot, like a fine soup, in which corn starch has been added, begins to thicken."
If Brust were to have written it himself, I don't believe it would have been a long book. But, alas, Paarfi is a wordy bastard.
If Brust were to have written it himself, I don't believe it would have been a long book. But, alas, Paarfi is a wordy bastard.
