Is probably why I spent the last week reading Stephen Brust. I started on Vlad Taltos in 2006, thanks to
One should probably read Vlad with long intervals. He's not a terribly likable person, which makes it doubly suspicious that all the top Dragaeran nobles like him. Marty Stu, is that you? Back to either DWJ, three of whose books I also got from the library, or Thich Nhat Hanh, that refuge in times of trouble.