But not all is adventure, mystery, comedy and grim tidings. There’s also a healthy dose of poetry and songs scattered throughout the story, and they enrich the ever-expanding environment with music, lore, humor, and other intangibles. Since the bulk of the story is a road trip, each stop along the way feels fresh with promise. The continent itself appears to be loosely based on Western Europe, with comparable languages and cultural swagger.

In short, this a great book that I really enjoyed. It's doing really well and I'm sure will continue to flourish. Special thanks to my Patrons on Patreon for giving me extra support towards my passion for reading and reviewing! Kinch’s voice is immediately impactful, hitting the right darkly humorous note from the outset. There’s nothing contrived about it, it’s natural and consistent, with more than an edge of snark. It works well with the pace of the novel, which is more like UF, but the scope of the worldbuilding is nothing less than epic. While I haven’t read his other works, it seemed to me that the author’s horror past is evident throughout, and especially in his depiction of the Goblin Wars. There’s a brutal reality to these wars, and to the goblins themselves, devastating in their effects both personal and worldwide. They intrude upon the narrative in surprising ways, in terror filled battles and silly diversions. A horrifyingly high stakes game of tug-of-war remains on my mind as I'm writing this ... months after reading. But just because its a pitch dark world doesn’t mean it can’t also be funny. If you like your humour crude as hell, that is. It's clear that this won't work for everyone, but Kinch is worth all the gutter talk. Along with those creatures, there is also a lot of violence—more than a couple of folks meet horrific ends as Kinch shares his story, and even his tongue-in-cheek retelling can’t wash away the savageness that pervades this world.

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We accompany a thief, hence the title of the book, as he is drawn into events greater and more dangerous than anything he has ever experienced before, and is not quite prepared for. As he weaves his way through a world of magic and betrayal surrounded mostly by those who are self-serving, there are some hilarious moments, but a depth to the story as well that goes beyond humour and shows the humanity of our characters.

La voz de Kinch encuentra un equilibrio entre la sensatez y la sabiduría, diálogos muy ágiles, de calidad, sarcasticos y sucintos para transmitir sus mensajes. Grandes giros que caen a golpes y ademas repentinos.

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Only the strong, the rich, and the dying think truth is a necessity; the rest of us know it for a luxury.” Now Kinch is an awesome character because he is hilarious but he is also three dimensional and you can’t help it but to care about him. He is smart but also gets in lot of trouble, he is strong but there are stronger people in his world. He is filthy with his tongue and love for cursing in all languages and the tendency to be juvenile and not able to hold his own self from laughing. But he is also nice deep down inside and really care for his family and friends. We are saved from the pitfalls of soft magic by the excellence of the author. We trust him not to abuse his power because he weaves such a good story that we don't think he'd spoil it like that. After reading one the worst book i could think of, 𝐢 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐫𝐞-𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐬. I still agree with everything i wrote and might have loved this book even more the second time around. Dark, gritty, lightning-fast, intelligent, irreverent… I loved it.”―Anna Smith Spark, author of The Court of Broken Knives

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What Kinch does not realize at the moment, but will soon learn, is that his bosses, as a failsafe, are assigning a deadly assassin named Sesta to shadow him. By the way, Sesta is concealed in the body of a stray cat that Kinch befriends. It’s not that the two, cat and killer, are identical and just alternately swapping forms. Sesta actually lives inside the cat, just as Galva’s war corvid lives in its owner’s secret realm. Of course, when you have witches you also have magic and spells, and this book is full of them, and really cool ones too! Creatures can live inside tattoos, if you have the right spells. Battle corvids and blind cats to name only a few. I was so scared, I half wanted to piss myself, but the difference between the strong and the weak isn’t that the strong don’t piss themselves. It’s that they hitch their pissy pants up after and go through with it.” One of the most impressive novels I've read in a long time— clever, imaginative, and extremely well written."—Arthur Golden, New York Times bestselling author of Memoirs of a Geisha