A review by abigcoffeedragon
Taltos by Steven Brust

4.0

I enjoy Dragons, but most Fantasy novels seem to play these as too generic and boring or too extremely different yet uninteresting or unbelievable - and though the dragon is NTO the center of the story, it is the companion of the main character and a fun insert to the novel and dialog - having the quirky asides with his dragon with their mental link allows for some information dump in small doses with humor thrown in to make you like that character more - quite honestly I don't think that I would have liked the character Vlad without the conversations with his dragon - the rest of the tale is straightforward with little surprises and a ton of flashbacks within the chapters, so be prepared to have to change gears rapidly and repeatedly for this jump after jump within the story - because of the amount of flashbacks I gave this story a four out of five stars.