melalvai wrote: > > Ok, I have to disagree. That's okay. We get a good deal of that around here. <grin> > Here's what I found confusing (SPOILERS AHEAD): > Mr. Brust usually does us the kindness to put in clues for the unexpected, > which are meaningless at the time but after you get surprised you suddenly > go "ah ha! That's what that meant!" When the protagonist said he was the > killer I was completely taken aback. I went back through and looked and > everything was pretty convincing that he was innocent, particularly where he > thinks he's being questioned "under the Orb" (some lie detector variant of > that world, anyway). So I have to admit, I was disappointed. Hmm...I'll read it again and look for clues, but the lack of them doesn't mean it's a bad story, or even that one need read other Theives' World stories to understand. Also, I was curious about the lie-detector section when I read it, and while it might not be considered a "clue", it was suspicious (or, at least, I found it so). Perhaps our tastes vary slightly. I thought it was grand, took me by surprise, and loved every second of shock I felt. See, now I gotta go read it again... :) Chris "Life is the nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real." -Thomas Ligotti- 'The Sect of the Idiot'