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_The Sword-Edged Blonde_, Alex Bledsoe
If you like Garrett, Glen Cook's hard-boiled PI in a low-tech fantasy world, but you wish Cook spent a little more time on theme, internal structure, and the dehumanizing effects of widespread violence, this is a good choice. Bledsoe's first novel is nicely self-contained; it does not scream "I am book one of N", but rather says what needs to be said about the life of Eddie LaCrosse, hard man about town, and then wraps it all up and ends.
I liked it a lot. I'll be looking for whatever Bledsoe writes next.
If you like Garrett, Glen Cook's hard-boiled PI in a low-tech fantasy world, but you wish Cook spent a little more time on theme, internal structure, and the dehumanizing effects of widespread violence, this is a good choice. Bledsoe's first novel is nicely self-contained; it does not scream "I am book one of N", but rather says what needs to be said about the life of Eddie LaCrosse, hard man about town, and then wraps it all up and ends.
I liked it a lot. I'll be looking for whatever Bledsoe writes next.
