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Tsalmoth impressions 1
2023-10-01 00:54It has been 5 years since I read a Vlad Taltos novel (re-reads of Issola and Orca, and a bunch more in 2017), but I still know the Cycle verse by heart. Granted I was looking at the visual diagram, so I was prompted by the House names in order and can't be certain I'd have reconstructed that on my own, but I knew all the couplets cold.
My guess as to which Houses are considered noble vs. middle class was off. I thought maybe everything from Athyra to Issola was noble, and the rest middle (apart from Teckla as lower class), oh with Yendi as an exception. But it calls Iorich noble (not too surprising) and Orca (more surprising, given all the sailors, though they can also be rich bankers.) Jhereg is also weird, 'noble' (Vlad's title even comes with a few tenants somewhere, no paper nobility!) but criminal. Just Tsalmoth, Vallista, Chreotha, and Jhegaala as the "true" middle (shopkeeper and artisan) class.
I've just gotten up to Something Weird happens to Vlad, but it has been a pleasant and engaging read so far. And without the signs of poor editing that some recent novels have had.
My guess as to which Houses are considered noble vs. middle class was off. I thought maybe everything from Athyra to Issola was noble, and the rest middle (apart from Teckla as lower class), oh with Yendi as an exception. But it calls Iorich noble (not too surprising) and Orca (more surprising, given all the sailors, though they can also be rich bankers.) Jhereg is also weird, 'noble' (Vlad's title even comes with a few tenants somewhere, no paper nobility!) but criminal. Just Tsalmoth, Vallista, Chreotha, and Jhegaala as the "true" middle (shopkeeper and artisan) class.
I've just gotten up to Something Weird happens to Vlad, but it has been a pleasant and engaging read so far. And without the signs of poor editing that some recent novels have had.