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Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. | Rating | |
| C | |||
| Robert Asprin | |||
| Series | Related Books | ||
| MythAdventures | Another Fine Myth, Myth Conceptions, Myth Directions, Hit or Myth, Myth-ing Persons, Little Myth Marker, M.Y.T.H. Inc. Link, Myth-Nomers and Im-Pervections, M.Y.T.H. Inc. In Action, Sweet Myth-tery of Life, Myth-Ion Improbable, Something M.Y.T.H. Inc., Myth-Told Tales, Myth Alliances, Myth-Taken Identity, Class Dis-Mythed, Myth-Gotten Gains | ||
Skeeve is back in Possiltum, and he has a lot on his mind, what with the mildly psychopathic queen pressuring him for a marriage proposal and all. Which is why, when rumors of civic unrest in the kingdom start cropping up, the crew of M.Y.T.H. Inc. decide not to trouble their boss and try to solve the problems themselves. Using their own unique style, they're going to track down the rebels and nip this uprising in the bud. And given the quality of the rebels this is going to be either really easy... or stupendously difficult!
Something M.Y.T.H. Inc. is actually concurrent with Sweet Myth-tery of Life, at least for the first two-thirds or so. This has the side effect of making some scenes repeats, only from a different point of view. That might have been fine, except the book is short enough as it is. The scenes aren't summed up, they're repeated in their entirety, with only the narration changed. Those redundant scenes leave room for even less new material.
The book's biggest problem, though, lies in its plausibility. D&D groups? Midieval suburbs? Taxmen not allowed to protect themselves or the cast they carry? None of it holds a gram of believability. And none of that would matter if the the book was only as amusing as it thought it was. Anachronisms and bad logic are easy to excuse if they're used to garner a laugh. These simply fail.
As I read this, I marveled that this is the book that took Asprin eight years to write. It was amazing because it did not feel at all like eight years of work by a professional author. The only reason possible for anyone to buy this book is to continue the series, because the story here is not worth it on its own. And, quite frankly, I'm not entirely sure it's worth it at all.
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