![]() ![]() I was a bit late to the party, the novel has already been garnering great reviews and lots of buzz all of which is deeply deserved, all of which is a bit tricky to explain in a review that doesn’t give away too many spoilers. ![]() Consequently, I was deeply excited to read his first foray into mainstream fantasy - The Blacktongue Thief. Interestingly, that sums up the writing of Christophe’s real identity as horror (and now fantasy) writer Christopher Buehlman a man whose growing canon of work is filled with some of the most disturbing and dark portrayals of classic horrors - vampires, werewolves, demons (and angels, who are pretty scary, too), and necromancers - but also moments of just brilliant, wicked humor and you always close the back cover deeply satisfied. It was dark, it was brutal, it was wickedly funny and everyone went away feeling good - even the victims. ![]() shows: Pay me to insult your friends in front of an audience. “Christophe the Insulter” was for years the single funniest performer at the Bristol Renaissance Faire in Wisconsin, with one of the best cons… er…. The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman ![]()
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