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Myth-Gotten Gains | Rating | |
| C | |||
| Robert Asprin and Jody Lynn Nye | |||
| 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 | ||
Aahz is a Pervect, which means he's from Perv. It also means he's a short-tempered, arrogant, money-grubbing bastard. And Aahz is a spectacular penny-pincher even among his own kind. So when a talking sword at a second-rate fela market promises riches beyond compare, how is he to refuse? But getting said treasure involves hunting down the lost items that were a part of the Golden Hoard, all magical artifacts of great power. But they're all sentient, and they don't particularly like each other... and there's still the riches to claim!
As usual, the authors have a pretty good story concept, here. And acquiring these things actually makes for a decent quest. But it should have been much shorter. By the time they have the first four, roughly halfway through the book, the bickering was getting as irritating to me as it was to Aahz. And the quest itself was beginning to wear thin by then, as well. My brain needed a break from scavenger hunting, especially with such unlikeable companions. It would have been nice if, about then, the story changed to actually using them, essentially beginning the run to the climax.
This could have been a good book, albeit never a great one. But it was really a one-trick pony stretched out over nearly three hundred pages. Add in the return of a positive herd of typos — a recurring problem in the Myth Adventure books, though largely absent from the last few — and I found the story a bit hard to take. More than a bit, in fact. Considering the quality of the last handful of books, I'm beginning to think it might be best to let the series go.
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