Luck in the Shadows

Slow paced, dispassionate writing style, full of descriptions and info-dumps.

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SUMMARY

Alec is young naive boy who is being tortured in a prison. Seregil, a well lived gentlemen, is a spy that just let himself being arrested on account of a mission. When Seregil decides to escape, he feels sorry for the young Alec and decides to take him along with him.

On the way to some city, they talk to each other and Seregil can't help but see something he likes about Alec, enough to offer to take him as an apprentice. Alec is reticent at first, because he wants nothing but to live an honorable life, and a spy is nothing but a professional liar thief in his eyes.

When arriving at the city, Seregil assumes one of his many disguises, as a bard, a famous one at that. They lodge themselves in an inn and offer their singing and storytelling services as a part of payment for they stay. All the while Seregil is busy at work, trying to find out information about an upcoming war.

Read 2:06 / 15:56 12%

It started off slow, had to drop and pick it up again. Glad I did because in the middle, the characters got interesting. towards the end it turned into a fantasy detective case ? lmao ?

anyways what I didn't like about this book is the new names being thrown at me every 10 mins. dear god, if you ask me where is where and who is who with a gun to my head I'll be dead within seconds