The pair become the favored spies of the kingdom, and their quests drive the plot through the series, all of which introduce new characters, locales, and cultures which enrich the world around them. I don’t want to spoil anything with too many details, but over the course of many books, alliances will change, the world of Elves, Men, and Dwarves will clash, and through it all these two men become not only friends, but platonic soulmates. Unbeknownst to them, there are political, religious, and interpersonal machinations are afoot for control of the empire. Royce Melborn, a misanthropic and highly skilled thief with a dark past, and Hadrian Blackwater, a charismatic mercenary, are reluctant (at best) partners in the theft of a sacred text from the tallest tower in the land, forced into a partnership to save the realm. The basic plot is this: Two men are brought together by a wise scholar for an impossible heist. I did consume this series via audiobook, and the fantastic narrator (combined with the tasks of taking down Christmas, laundry, holiday chore catch up), made the time sail by, hence all 6 at once. Well, first review of the year, and this is a doozy! It’s kind of impossible to attempt to divide out all 6 books, so I’ll do this in a combined post.
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