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Vlad Taltos is a mobster and assassin in the magical metropolis of Adrilankha. A member of the Great House of Jhereg (named for the tiny dragon-like creatures native to Dragaera), Taltos is given the largest contract of his career but the job is even more complicated than he expects.
The first book in Stephen Brust's "Vlad Taltos" series, Jhereg has also been adapted into a graphic novel by Marvel Comics. Here, Bernard Setaro Clark brings the tale to life in a rousing performance.
- Sales Rank: #1042906 in Books
- Brand: Ace
- Published on: 1987-03-15
- Released on: 1987-03-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.84" h x .68" w x 4.24" l,
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 239 pages
- Great product!
About the Author
Steven Brust is the author of numerous fantasy novels, including Jhereg, Yendi, Teckla, and Orca. He lives in Minneapolis.
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Entertaining, but....
By Bookman
First, before I offend some Steven Brust fans, I did find this novel reasonably entertaining. But geez, I wanted to like it a whole lot more than I did. I loved the concept - a series of books about Vlad Taltos, an assassin on the world of Dragaera. Vlad is an "easterner", or human, who is a member of one of the Dragaeran "Houses" - the Jhereg. Each of the succeeding books is titled with one of the other "Houses" and presumably is a more in depth look at that "House".
Sounds great (and it wasn't bad as I said), but I find Brust's style lacking in some of the elements I enjoy most. So far I've read two Brust novels (this one and To Reign in Hell) and I find that he puts all his energies into two things - an elaborate plot resolution and, most importantly, snappy dialogue repartee; LOTS of snappy repartee. I found myself begging for a description of almost anything - his wife, his assistant, his office, his apartment, Castle Black - anything. Most of his descriptions are reserved for his knives and daggers. He also creates some very intriguing characters, but leaves them largely with little descriptive meat on their bones. So, while I'll probably read more novels in this series, I'm in no rush to do so.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
Introducing Vlad Taltos
By Marshall Lord
Jhereg is the first book in the "Vladimir Taltos" series, and introduces the character and his world. It is a highly entertaining comic fantasy.
The first part of the book includes a brief account of Vlad's boyhood, and the story of how he acquires the live Jhereg egg which hatches into his familiar and constant companion Loiosh. That's Loiosh on the front cover of this book hatching from his egg, he's a small intelligent flying reptile something like a miniature dragon, and he also appears on the cover of the great majority of the other books of the series. He has a telepathic link to Vlad, and one of the hallmarks of the series is the constant mental exchange of banter and insults between Vlad and Loiosh.
All the Vlad Taltos stories jump around in time a lot, and and after the introduction "Jhereg" jumps ahead approximately seven years to the main action of the book, leapfrogging three of the subsequently written books and making this first book in the series also the fourth in chronological sequence.
The "Vlad Taltos" novels, and the same author's or "Khaavren" romances (see below), are all set in a world of magic, where there are several intelligent species, including two types of men and women. Humans like ourselves, and Vlad, are usually referred to as "Easterners," the other type of men and women call themselves humans but are usually referred to in the books as "Dragaerans" or occasionally as Elves.
Dragaerans are taller than humans, live 2,000 years or so, and then after death are eligible for reincarnation provided they have not annoyed a God too much or had their soul destroyed by a "Morganti" weapon or a "Great Weapon."
Morganti weapons are used between mortals when they are really angry with someone because they don't just kill you, but destroy your soul. "Great Weapons," are rare and especially powerful Morganti weapons, of which legend has it there are exactly seventeen, and which can even kill Gods.
All Dragaerans and some humans/Easterners belong to one of seventeen "Great Houses" named after animals of the fantasy world in which the novels are set. Nine of the ten novels to date featuring Vlad Taltos, including "Jhereg" have the same name as one of these great houses, usually also featuring a member of that house in a prominent role: if Steven Brust is planning to write a novel for each house we are about half way through the series.
Most of the great houses also have a preferred occupation. For examples: "Dragons" and "Dzurlords" are soldiers, "Tecla" are peasants, "Chreotha" are merchants, "Orcas" are sailors, pirates or bankers, and "Jhereg" are gangsters or assassins.
Most members of House Jhereg are also involved in "the organisation" which controls organised crime. The hero, Baronet Vladimir Taltos, is an assassin and minor sorcerer, a member of House Jhereg, and at the time of this book, a crimelord running an area for "the organisation." Vlad's late father spent most of the family fortune buying a minor title in House Jhereg, which is almost the only way a human (Easterner) can advance in the empire, and Vlad has inherited the title.
Taltos narrates these stories with a wonderful dry wit which is one of the best aspects of the novels.
The books are not written in a regular chronological sequence: for example, the fourth novel, "Taltos" is a prequel set before the main action of any of the others. And most of the books contain either flashbacks to much earlier events, references to much later events, or both. In my opinion you will get most out of these books if you read them in something close to the "official" order, but there is an alternative view which says that they are best read in chronological sequence.
If you are interested in the Vlad Taltos series, my recommendation would be to start with either this first book written, "Jhereg" or the chronologically first book, "Taltos."
Here is a list of the books in publication order, with the chronological place of the main action of each book in brackets after:
1) Jhereg (4th)
2) Yendi (3rd)
3) Tecla (5th)
4) Taltos (1st)
5) Phoenix (6th)
6) Athyra (7th)
7) Orca (8th)
8) Dragon (2nd)
9) Issola (9th)
10) Dzur (10th).
If you enjoy the Taltos novels, you might be interested in another sequence of books which Steven Brust has set a few centuries earlier. These are something between a parody and a homage to the novels of Alexandre Dumas. He's called them the "Khaavren Romances" after the central character of the first two novels, who corresponds very closely to D'Artagnan. Obviously none of the human characters overlap, but some of the Dragaerans do: Khaavren himself and Vlad briefly meet in the book "Tecla" and Khaavren also has a sort of offstage cameo in the Vlad Taltos book "Orca." Two of the major characters in the Taltos novels, Sethra Lavode and Lord Morrolan of Castle Black, are also important enough in the Khaavren novels to have books named after them.
The five Khaavren romances, in sequence, are
1) "The Phoenix Guards" (equivalent to "The Three Musketeers")
2) "Five Hundred Years After" (equivalent to "Twenty years after")
Then a trilogy "The Viscount of Adrilankha" (e.g. "The Count of Monte Cristo") which comprises
3) The Paths of the Dead
4) The Lord of Castle Black
5) Sethra Lavode
Overall I found both the "Taltos" novels and the "Khaavren Romances" very entertaining: I recommend both series and this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Is that a dragon on your shoulder?
By David Roy
Remember when fantasy used to be fun? The genre wasn't full of these door-stopper, epic fantasies that go on for thousands of pages with just a little bit of a point. Sure, those can be good now and then, and I actually like a few series, but I miss the times when you could pick up a fairly short novel and have a laugh or two. Yes, Discworld is still out there, and I believe Robert Asprin is still writing the "Myth" books, but what about something new?
Back in 1983, Steven Brust introduced us to Vlad Taltos, an assassin, a "mob" boss (or the Dragaeran equivalent of one), and a human fish out of water. He's the man with the dragon-like creature (called a Jhereg) on his shoulder, and he's good at what he does. The first book of the series was called Jhereg, and gave us our first peek at Vlad's world. Having finally read this book, I can truly say that it is great. Brust's characterizations shine through and his wit is infectious. I've had this series recommended to me many times, and I regret waiting so long to start it.
Vlad is a human in a Dragaeran world, a citizen of the Empire whose father came from the East. In fact, his father spent most of the family's money so that he could buy a title in the Empire so Vlad would have a standing in it. The House, Jhereg, is more "mob"-like than the rest of the houses, and Vlad quickly moves up the ranks to have his own territory. He's also made himself one of the best assassins out there, but he's quite surprised when another boss, called "The Demon," hires him to kill one of the Jhereg's higher-ups who has absconded with a great deal of the House's money. One condition: Vlad must do it quickly, before word gets out that somebody has done this to the Jheregs. There's also one hitch: the target in question has taken refuge in Castle Black, as a guest of Morrolan the Dragonlord. Morrolan's honour is strong enough that, once he has welcomed somebody as a guest, the guest is under his protection, no matter what. Vlad also finds that the case is even more complicated, reaching all the way back to the beginning of the Dragaeran Houses. Can Vlad succeed in time, without getting killed in the process?
The world Brust has created is very imaginative, and he doles out the information pieces at a time. Jhereg begins with a little about Vlad's childhood and then how he earned his Jhereg side-kick, Loiosh, and then gets right into the action. We slowly learn about Dragaeran society, how the Houses work, and how they interact. All of Vlad's relationships are already established, including his wife Cawti (the next book, Yendi, details how they met), so Brust takes us along for the ride, and we have to absorb everything as we go. I liked that, as Brust is always clear enough that I was never really lost (though how the honour system works sometimes eluded me).
Vlad is the narrator of the series, and thus his characterization is the most important. Thankfully, Brust nails him beautifully, giving us a likable protagonist (who, occasionally, kills people for either money or because they crossed him, but that's neither here nor there). The dialogue, especially between Vlad and Loiosh, is wonderful. I did get a bit tired of him telling Loiosh to "shut up" after a sarcastic comment, but it seems to be their shtick so I'd better get used to it. I also loved Kragar, Vlad's henchman, and would really like to know more about his story. He has a good relationship with his boss, but the funniest part about him is how he's so unnoticeable. The running gag in this series is how somebody's looking for Kragar and he's right there sitting in front of them, without anybody having seen him come in. That joke may get old after a while, but I still find it hilarious each time it happens.
Jhereg's plot is very lean, with no extraneous material taking up space and filling up the page count. Vlad's dilemma is interesting, as he has to try and find a way to get Mellar out of Morrolan's house without using magic, and without killing him in Castle Black. When the plot expands even more and the risk of a great war between the Jheregs and the Dragons because of this killing rears its ugly head, the plot gets even more intense. Vlad's loyalties are tested as he is good friends with (and works for) Morrolan, so he will not carry out any assassination that will hurt Morrolan's honour, which unfortunately makes Vlad a target for assassination as well. The twists and turns in the story make it unpredictable, and the way sorcery and witchcraft (in this world, there is a difference), along with some of the magical Great Weapons that are about, makes the ending unpredictable. Thankfully, Brust doesn't pull the ending out of left field, though, setting it up nicely beforehand.
My only fault with this book, and it's my own preference more than anything else, is that I'm getting tired of the "let's create an intricate plan that involves lots of people, sit down and be briefed on what everybody needs to do, then carry it out" sequences. They just annoy me. I call it the "Let's have a meeting and then execute the plan" formula. Always, one thing (maybe two) goes wrong, they have to improvise, and they end up succeeding anyway. It's so predictable as to be maddening. Then again, this book is over 20 years old, so I'll grant it a waiver in this case.
Jhereg is an excellent beginning to the Vlad Taltos series. If you like your fantasy a little fun, this would be a great one to pick up.
David Roy
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