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Der schwarzzüngige Dieb by Christopher Buehlman

24 reviews

thehappylittleelf's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

Someone else, either on Goodreads or here, mentioned the book felt like side quests in a video game, and that very much is true. It certainly feels like someone wrote down their D&D campaign.  Every scenes, I was waiting for someone to say, “Roll for initiative!”

However! It’s not necessarily a bad thing. The voice of the main character is great, as is the humor. If you like a series of small stories with a very loose overarching plot with a mouthy main character, you’ll love this.
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luckykosmos's review against another edition

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dark funny medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.25

I would have liked more from the plot, but Kinch's voice is second to none - the only way I could describe this is 'The Name of the Wind' by way of Locke Lamora and Gideon Nav. The worldbuilding was exquisite and the ways the characters bounced off one another was divine - the main flaw was that i wanted more from all of it. 

(Especially Galva. So much more of Galva, please.)
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unlikelyplaces's review against another edition

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adventurous funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.5

I have a lot of thoughts on this book…

Let’s start with the things I liked:
  • The world building was really solid, it felt really well fleshed out and interesting 
  • I actually really enjoyed the plot overall, it was fast paced and kept me interested the whole way through and if it wasn’t for the negatives (which I’ll get to) I’d definitely want to be carrying on with this series
  •  The action scenes were really well written, exciting but clear


Now for the negatives…
  •  The characters… I am a very character driven reader and actually the snarky thief archetype are my favourite characters to read about however I found this main character just unbearably annoying and the rest of the characters were not really developed very well at all so there was just no one I felt attached to
  • There were just a few things to do with the writing that really bothered me. Like it wasn’t too bad overall but the author does this thing where he feels the need to end every chapter with like a LINE like the equivalent of “everything changed when the fire nation attacked” *dun dun dunnnn*  and also chucks the same type of lines in throughout the chapter as well just to really try to shock you. I don’t know why this bothered me so much, it was just so repetitive…
  • I really hated the way this book portrays the female characters. It started with the mc constantly commenting on women’s appearances and what he would like to “do” with them and then it was like the mc was a man and all of the other characters were women that were underdeveloped and that the mc spends a lot of time ogling. And THEN the romance started and it was just cringey and at one point he describes a woman’s voice as “husky and fertile”… her voice… was fertile??… I’m not even sure what that’s trying to mean??
  • There is also a scene that deals with a sexual assault but I felt like the topic was not treated sensitively because the victim was a man which is not ok…
  • And then just a minor thing, it was marketed as like a dark fantasy/horror but like I didn’t find it that dark? Like it was a bit but not as much as I was expecting? Maybe I just have a high tolerance though.


So yeah… I was really expecting to love this book a lot because from the description it’s everything I love on a book but it just irritated me a lot throughout so… 1.5 for the world and the story but I will not be continuing this series.
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areaderheart's review against another edition

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adventurous dark funny fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

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