Royce Melborn and Hadrian Blackwater make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for the conspiring nobles of Apeladorn until the day a desperate nobleman hires them to steal a famed sword. This seemingly simple job goes very wrong, however, when the pair are implicated in the murder of a king and become entangled into a dangerous conspiracy.
I'm really torn about Theft of Swords. On the one hand, it's a pretty standard epic swords-and-sorcery fantasy; the story follows well-worn tropes, and it takes place in your standard medieval Europe fantasy world. Theft of Swords also follows convention when it comes to female characters - they all either are in need of rescuing or are simply plot devices to help the heroes on their way. Despite this, however, the two protagonists and the central mystery were just intriguing enough to keep me reading for hundreds of pages.
Recommended For: Fans of traditional sword-and-sorcery fantasy full of sword fights and hair-raising escapes.
Read On: The next book in the Riyria Revelations series is Rise of Empire. A similar but much better (in my opinion) epic sword-and-sorcery fantasy is Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence.
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