Review: Five fools and a tavern
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 13, 2013
This is a short novella that was kind of fun to read. It tried to be funny much more often than it actually was, but a couple parts were actually funny. But then a few parts were... wince-inducing.The five are: two armored ladies of some previous royal occupation (which is probably an interesting story, when it gets there), who get robbed by a half-ling (or some spelling of) to pay off the inn owned by the father of the bard who tells bad jokes, and after a surely avoidable debacle they set off to find revenge and are joined by a young starry-eyed wizard/elf with a flaming-eyed bunny.The author explains at the opening that this is the start of a series of shorts that continue to develop these characters, and I assume the world, and probably the bad-guys.Though I won't be waiting for the rest, I recommend The Party of Five for a light read. It might be your kind of short and funny.