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Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Island

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Pathfinder Tales: Liar's Island

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A Thief and His Sword

Rodrick is a con man as charming as he is cunning. Hrym is a talking sword of magical ice, with the soul and spells of an ancient dragon. Together, the two travel the world, parting the gullible from their gold and freezing their enemies in their tracks. But when the two get summoned to the mysterious island of Jalmeray by a king with genies and elementals at his command, they'll need all their wits and charm if they're going to escape with the greatest prize of all—their lives.

From Hugo Award winner Tim Pratt comes a tale of magic, assassination, and cheerful larceny, set in the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.

304-page trade paperback
ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-7452-3

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Treachery on Jalmaray

3/5 —

I’m sorry to say I was disappointed with this Pathfinder Tale. The storyline is linear, poorly paced and hardly engaging up until the final 3 or 4 chapters. The novel struggles to evoke the depth of the Inner Sea setting – it feels like generic fantasy. It is hard to identify and sympathise with a character who cheats and lies, runs crooked schemes (some of which fail, many of which leave victims), has an arrogant attitude to women, and whose only motivation is money. (I’m talking about Roderick, not a Presidential Candidate). The final few chapters gain pace with more interesting characters such as the garuda. Ultimately though it is too little, too late and Liar’s Island fails to satisfy in the way some of the best Pathfinder Tales have.

A sword and his man

5/5 —

Roderick and Hrym are back, and this time it's for 1001 Nights style adventure on the island of Jalmeray. It's got death cultist, more djinn than you can shake a lamp at, and the witter banter between man and sentient dragon-sword that you have come to know and love.

Pratt does not disappoint. Highly recommended.

Sequel does a good job continuing development

4/5 —

I like this sequel - after the events of Liar's Blade, Rodrick and Hrym try to get back into the swing of thievery, but they're dealing with the fallout from the last book.

Brief tour of Jalmeray from the Inner Sea perspective. One thing I've always liked about Golarion and its high proportion of adventurers means a lot of magic is available, if expensive, and it's the reality the characters live in.

Fun scheming, but the protagonists sort of lose the initiative in the second half, even if there's lots of good action, with stops me from granting five stars, but I recommend the book to fans of the line.

4/5 —

The Story starts slow and it takes halfway to speed up. The End is great and as expected full off twists and turn.
Not as good as Liar's Blade but worth reading anyway.

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Yay! More Rodrick and Hrym!

It looks like this is the finalized cover?
Managing Editor

Yup! This is the real cover. Looking at this was the first time I really appreciated how beautiful the new trade paperback format is going to be. :)
Liberty's Edge RPG Superstar 2008 Top 32, 2011 Top 16

Awesome! Can't wait. After their brief reference in Reign of Stars, I'd love to see a novel teaming them up with Alaeron and Skiver.

For that matter, a novel that teams up characters from different Pathfinder Tales authors could be pretty cool, similar to the Avengers movie bringing together all of the heroes from their independent movies.
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Gotta say, I'm loving these new covers! Very cool to see another by Tim, too!

Huh, I was just saying to a friend last night that Rodrick and Hrym were the next Pathfinder Tales characters I'd like to get another book. Jump on this morning and see this...

Since you've apparently been reading my mind, I look forward to seeing a sequel to Skinwalkers announced shortly as well.

I would LOVE to see this one made up as a Wallpaper with or without the text (preferably without, but I'm not too picky).

sweet

Really hope Skiver shows up in this, he is HANDS DOWN my favorite character.

What are the dimensions of this book? Is it 6.7” x 4.2” like most in the past novels or 8.2” x 5.4” like the recent Lord of Runes? Personally I like the larger sizes for my books BUT now Lord of Runes does not match all the other Pathfinder books on my shelf. I know, 1st world problem. Liar’s Island is in my side cart regardless of the size. I really liked Pratt’s previous novel; my favorite Pathfinder author and that’s saying something.
Dark Archive

Yea! These two are
By far my favorite pathfinder characters.
Pathfinder Roleplaying Game Charter Superscriber

AWESOME cover!

looks like I am going to have to scrounge up another $15 this month
Liberty's Edge
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We have a release date for the Audio Book yet? I have 2 credits on Audible.com ready to be used!
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FattyLumpkin wrote:
What are the dimensions of this book? Is it 6.7” x 4.2” like most in the past novels or 8.2” x 5.4” like the recent Lord of Runes? Personally I like the larger sizes for my books BUT now Lord of Runes does not match all the other Pathfinder books on my shelf. I know, 1st world problem. Liar’s Island is in my side cart regardless of the size. I really liked Pratt’s previous novel; my favorite Pathfinder author and that’s saying something.

All books going forward (i.e. all those published by Tor) will be in the larger trade paperback size.

You can read the press release here.
Liberty's Edge
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The Audio Book is out by the way.

Is there any plan for these books to become available again? I was reading the first of this trilogy and now the 2nd and 3rd aren't on any storefronts which is disappointing.
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Goggalore wrote:
Is there any plan for these books to become available again? I was reading the first of this trilogy and now the 2nd and 3rd aren't on any storefronts which is disappointing.

I don't have any insider info, but from scattered commentss I've caught, and based on my incomplete understanding, it feels like the publishing agreements for the old "Pathfinder Tales" series of novel have fell through at some point, so it might be hard.

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