![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Jan. 21st, 2016 07:29 pmNot everything I've been reading recently is grim or horrific! Sherwood Smith's Lhind the Thief is a fluffy fantasy romp involving magic and vague politics and more secret royalty than you can shake a stick at.
The protagonist, Lhind, is a orphan thief who gets picked up and carried off by some mysterious individuals one day after accidentally doing some concerningly impressive magic right in front of them. The mysterious individuals make most of a full D&D group, including a bard, a grumpy noble, and a nerdy mage-scribe named Hlanan.
( Spoilers for the first third of the book! )
The rest of the book basically just involves Lhind Learning To Trust while consistently saving everybody's lives from various conspiracies with her super magical powers. There's a good magical MacGuffin and an evil magical MacGuffin and some politics around an evil sorcerous kingdom which I had a hard time following, and, again, let me repeat: if you're frustrated with secret royalty, this is absolutely not the book for you. However, if you would like some fun fantasy fluff, it very well might be!
The protagonist, Lhind, is a orphan thief who gets picked up and carried off by some mysterious individuals one day after accidentally doing some concerningly impressive magic right in front of them. The mysterious individuals make most of a full D&D group, including a bard, a grumpy noble, and a nerdy mage-scribe named Hlanan.
( Spoilers for the first third of the book! )
The rest of the book basically just involves Lhind Learning To Trust while consistently saving everybody's lives from various conspiracies with her super magical powers. There's a good magical MacGuffin and an evil magical MacGuffin and some politics around an evil sorcerous kingdom which I had a hard time following, and, again, let me repeat: if you're frustrated with secret royalty, this is absolutely not the book for you. However, if you would like some fun fantasy fluff, it very well might be!
