Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead

If you like snarky literary prose, this book is for you. Thats the main reason I picked it up anyway. I love smart mouth protagnists, especially if they are telling the story.

The plot is great, the characters lovable and the book is pretty self aware. I wish there was more random mental ramblings and less excruciating war strategy details. Although that may just be me. Still gonna read the next book!

An entertaining book but my issue is that the main character feels like any of the main characters from the previous first person trilogy from KJ parker I've read. Zany and sardonic and arrogant. If you had told me this was the same person form 16 Ways to Defend a Walled City I would believe you.

And unfortunately, it's just not a character type I like that much. This voice was maybe a bit better than that trilogy, but I still struggled with it.

Although, I did audio for this one and I think the narrator, while technically good, is mismatched for this book. So I will try the second one physically and see if that helps.

KJ Parker's stock in trade is a sardonic cynicism, allied with dark humour and an eye for the realities of a situation that epic fantasy often overlooks. So it's entirely logical that his latest is about someone making a living from battlefields in the aftermath of bloody conflicts. That's where it starts anyway - Saevus Corax goes on quite the journey through this book. And you'll enjoy going on it with him - it's a good fun read, as long as you are the sort of person who can find the fun in treachery, betrayal, and corpse disposal, of course....