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[bjornwilde]

Dear Lazywebs: I find myself wanting to read a series with a rogue/thief who uses magic. I blame having finished both of the Six of Crow books. I have read most of the Vlad Taltos series (which I should get back to), and the first book in the Legend of Eli Monpress (which didn't quite work for me).

Got any suggestions?

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[hamsterwoman]

I started 'Darker Shade of Magic' some time ago but ran out of steam fairly early in the first book. I might come back to it at some point, as i did like the premise. (Anglo-centric or even London-centric is definitely not a problem for me, as I spent one year reading a ton of urban fantasy set in London, chasing a Rivers of London high while waiting for the next book of that, and another year reading a bunch of Victorian-era fantasy :)

Responding to the older comment here, too:

I did love Andrea and the Bouda though. I also loved witches and the vulv (sp?), especially Roman

The Boudas were definitely the most interesting of the shifters for me! And I liked Andrea in the Kate books, but the side stories that I tried that featured her more prominently just didn't work for me, prose-wise.

The witches and the volhv (it's a weird word even in Russian :) were fun -- and it's SO rare to see Russian elements in fantasy done right.

I read the first three Edge books, and while #1 was nice enough, #2 was my favorite by a long shot (if you remember William the werewolf from the first book, he's the protagonist), and #3 (with the con-artists) was also really cute, and featured more of Rose's younger brothers. Since William and Rose's younger brother ended up being my favorite things about book 1, you can probably see haw 2 and 3 would be my favorites :)

I've heard good things about the Innkeeper series, and I like multiverses/crossover-type settings, so I definitely want to check those out at some point.

It's a curse I have, to fall in love with a character and then they die or are pushed out of the narrative.

Me too, but with Lynch it's almost inevitable, from what I've seen. So I've started warning people for that now :)