Shadows of Sanctuary

The third anthology in the THIEVES' WORLD cycle goes a bit off the rails. I like Vonda McIntyre's work in general, but her touchy-feely opening piece barely feels congruent with the setting established in the previous two books. Andrew Offutt has the best dialogue and description in the anthology, b......more

Storm Season Book Three of Thieves' World Edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey Tantor Audio Narrated by Jonathan Johns Another fantastic collection. I am still awed by the continuity. Consequences in one story spill over into the others. To my knowledge, I have never encountered something quite li......more

I’m really enjoying these anthologies. More grim than I thought they would be, which is good. Sword and sorcery elements, fantasy elements, anything goes. What more could you ask?......more

I was torn as to whether to give this three stars or four, but in the end decided to be generous and round it up to four. This is probably my favourite of the Thieves’ World books – it’s certainly the one that’s stuck in my mind the most from when I first read these books many years ago – whether tha......more

I picked this book up eagerly looking for more of the thuggery & skulduggery I've come to slaveringly expect from Thieves' World books. I was bored and disappointed by the cavalcade of all-new characters who took up the first 75 pages with their seemingly endless touchy-feely horseshit in Vonda McIn......more