Review: Classic fantasy, marvelously done
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2014
Tanya Huff is a superb fantasist, and her tales of Terizan the thief are classics in a genre whose early exemplars included Fritz Leiber's Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser.  Terizan, while closer certainly to the Mouser than to Fafhrd, is very much her own character-- a thief and not a swordsman (she's a pacifist when it comes to killing, and a young woman-- although she shares a choice in sexual partners with the Mouser), and not a traveling adventurer but emotionally attached to her own city.  She is not merely a member of the Thieves Guild, which she joined for the health benefits in an era lacking in ObamaCare, but the most highly skilled thief in the Guild, which gets her a certain number of assignments she wouldn't have chosen on her own, but which make excellent stories.As with everything coming from Tanya Huff's pen/typewriter/computer, read these stories.  Highly recommended.