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Today I am thankful for fantasy writers who put lush, flavorful worlds around noir-influenced criminals. Just finished Among Thieves by Douglas Hulick, which is being touted as a new Lies of Locke Lamora, but is I think closer to a new Jhereg. Less humor and more hardboiled sensibility than TLOLL, though certainly there are parallels. Anyone who's either a fan of Lynch or Brust will almost certainly enjoy, and the thieves' cant dialogue used by the main characters is linguistically delicious besides. Anyone who enjoyed Maledicte will probably get a kick out of the world-building, too.

For that matter, I was also forcibly reminded of my playthroughs of Oblivion and Dragon Age 2.

Maybe I just get too much into this particular subgenre.
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