/lit/ - Literature

Just finished pic related.
As always from this series, it was a good read. Seemed to lean a bit more on the humor than previous entries, but was otherwise pretty standard. Plotwise, this picks up roughly 5 years after Physicians of Vilnoc, the political situation in Cedonia deteriorates after the death of the emperor, and a faction of the royalty approaches Penric's brother in law with an offer to restore his station. This is obviously not ideal for the people who had Arisaydia blinded in the earlier novels, so they try to have him killed, but they do so in a manner that the Bastard takes personal ire to.

A thing I've noticed is that the Penric novellas are becoming less Novellas and more novels, this one clocks in at 235 pages, which is a far cry from some of the earlier entries which were barely 100 pages.

Do recommend.