While others are gone forever, lost or dead. Ischade and Enas Yorl, Walegrin and Myrtis, Jihan and Randal, yes, a lot of the old gang is still around. Old Molin Torchholder? Yes, he’s still as big an ass as ever. Is Illyra still around? Oh, yes, and her son Arton – you knew she had a boy? – he’s a Stepson now. Their prose was never what one would call simplistic, but here, it has attained an additional pleasant depth and richness.Īnd as happens when old classmates meet after years-long separations, conversation inevitably turns to other mutual acquaintances. Or more accurately, so has the writing of Janet Morris and Chris Morris. Because TSB was written in 2010, and just as on our side of the page, some decades have passed between the days of Thieves’ World and the setting of The Sacred Band.Īnd just as I have – well, let’s not say ‘aged’ shall we, let’s use a different word – just as I have matured, grown more complex, so have the Stepsons. And in the process, I had a chance to find out what these characters are up to in the present.
You may have read the result, a pair of reviews of the Thieves’ World series of books that appeared on this site last year. Some decades later, I waxed nostalgic and revisited the past, as folk are wont to do. Perhaps we weren’t exactly friends, but I did have more than a nodding acquaintance with them, yes, and with the rest of the residents of the shared-universe fantasy world of Sanctuary. Critias, Straton, Nikodemos, Tempus (oh Tempus!), and the rest of his Sacred Band of Stepsons.
Because the characters in this book, well I first met them and became close with them back in the mid-1980s, back in high school. Reading this book from Janet Morris and Chris Morris is exactly like meeting an old classmate from high school, some 25 or 30 years after you’ve graduated and gone your separate ways out into the world to make your fortunes.Īnd when I say exactly, I mean exactly.
From the very first chapter of The Sacred Band, I had a feeling about how I wanted to write this review, and the further in I went, the more certain I became.
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