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A review by ielerol
The Assassins of Thasalon by Lois McMaster Bujold
5.0
The whole reason I bother to write goodreads reviews is to help other people figure out if they might like a book or not. Which makes it hard write one here because if you are already a Penric and Desdemona fan, the way you know you'll like this book is that it exists. It's a novel-length Penric story, doing everything a Penric story does well but intensified thanks to the higher stakes. If you are not already a fan, there's enough exposition that you probably could start here, but why bother? If you have even a little bit of interest in a fantasy series with great characterization and a lot of thought put into how and why cultures work the way they do, start at the beginning and you won't be sorry.
So instead I will say that if I have any complaint at all, it's that a series featuring the patron god of gay people doesn't have many important gay characters. So my headcanon is that every single maybe-implied throuple of the series is definitely an extremely gay throuple. This is maybe also the lesson I've taken from Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen: every potential Bujold throuple is canon. Obviously, this means that however much Adelis resists it at first, he and Boscha are definitely going to end up in bed together.
So instead I will say that if I have any complaint at all, it's that a series featuring the patron god of gay people doesn't have many important gay characters. So my headcanon is that every single maybe-implied throuple of the series is definitely an extremely gay throuple. This is maybe also the lesson I've taken from Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen: every potential Bujold throuple is canon. Obviously, this means that however much Adelis resists it at first, he and Boscha are definitely going to end up in bed together.