A Dance of Blades
I already mentioned, albeit in brief, A Dance of Cloaks. The second book is... follow-up. I guess it further fills in story, as the whole series is meant to be background for a character that appears in another series the author has.
Prodigy thief/assassin boy presumed dead as re-established himself as "the Watcher," terrorizing the guilds on the street while the guild/merchant conflict drags out. It still feels very (older) D&D, where a handful of people are so ridiculously skilled that a couple dozen soldiers are an annoyance and getting hit by one crossbow bolt a day is more frustrating than lethal. Few enough people seem to possess magic, but those who do can do such things you wonder why there isn't more impact in the world. There's even a mercenary group with a blacksmith whose creations are deemed "special," a priestess whose magics heal, a rogue/swordsman, and lead by a mage (fireballs and all).
It's fine reading as "light" fantasy, where you don't really bother to get too in-depth with anything. If you want to see more thorough world building and logic, it's a bit on the shallow side.
Prodigy thief/assassin boy presumed dead as re-established himself as "the Watcher," terrorizing the guilds on the street while the guild/merchant conflict drags out. It still feels very (older) D&D, where a handful of people are so ridiculously skilled that a couple dozen soldiers are an annoyance and getting hit by one crossbow bolt a day is more frustrating than lethal. Few enough people seem to possess magic, but those who do can do such things you wonder why there isn't more impact in the world. There's even a mercenary group with a blacksmith whose creations are deemed "special," a priestess whose magics heal, a rogue/swordsman, and lead by a mage (fireballs and all).
It's fine reading as "light" fantasy, where you don't really bother to get too in-depth with anything. If you want to see more thorough world building and logic, it's a bit on the shallow side.
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