Lord Mouse (Audible Audio Edition) Mason Thomas Joel Leslie Dreamspinner Press LLC Books
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Scoundrel by nature and master thief by trade, Mouse is the best there is. Sure, his methods may not make him many friends, but he works best alone anyway. And he has never failed a job.
But that could change.
When a stranger with a hefty bag of gold seduces him to take on a task, Mouse knows he'll regret it. The job? Free Lord Garron, the son of a powerful duke arrested on trumped up charges in a rival duchy. Mouse doesn't do rescue missions. He's no altruistic hero, and something about the job reeks. But he cannot turn his back on that much coin - enough to buy a king's pardon for the murder charge hanging over his head.
Getting Garron out of his tower prison is the easy part. Now, they must escape an army of guardsmen, a walled keep and a city on lockdown, and a ruthless mage using her power to track them. Making matters worse, Mouse is distracted by Garron's charm and unyielding integrity. Falling for a client can lead to mistakes. Falling for a nobleman can lead to disaster. But Mouse is unprepared for the dangers behind the plot to make Lord Garron disappear.
Lord Mouse (Audible Audio Edition) Mason Thomas Joel Leslie Dreamspinner Press LLC Books
I’ve been reading a lot of great books lately but it’s been a rare thing to find a book that hits all my literary kinks.I’ve been searching for well crafted fantasy with queer characters for so long I almost decided to write something myself. Then I happened upon a review by Just Love that sounded promising.
Boy did it deliver.
Lord Mouse is everything I’ve been lusting after in a fantasy novel. The main character is Mouse, a tiny little badass thief and assassin, and no he doesn’t have a heart of gold but he does pride himself on a job well done. If you can afford him. He’s never failed a job and when he gets a chance at a challenging job that pays more coin than he’s ever seen he’s not about to turn it down.
And that’s exactly what gets him into trouble.
Thomas does a fantastic job at throwing you right into Mouse’s world and a dark, dirty, gritty world it is. Thomas takes you from the cruel criminal underbelly, up the rungs of the social ladder in a way that feels natural, but not too easy. Mouse has to work for his contacts and information and sometimes it’s a blade and sometimes it’s a bed.
As an asexual I’m not a big fan of casual hook-ups but the sex scenes were never gratuitous and were mostly fade-to-black moments. This was something I appreciated. The story was about Mouse’s character growth, not about sexual escapades.
It was also very refreshing to read a book where being gay wasn’t something to angst over. It was just treated as part of who he is, which in my opinion, is as it should be.
I loved getting to know Mouse but I sincerely wish the story had been longer and I think it should have been. The first act is spent getting Mouse into position to do this big rescue mission and then we spend the next act of the book with him trying to escape. I did enjoy it very much, but I felt the last third was rushed and would have liked to have seen Garron and Mouse get to know each other better before the end. The big reveal at the end could have packed a lot more punch had we had a chance to get to know Garron better.
Ideally the rescue could have happened by the end of the first act and the second act could have had a longer build up to the finale. I feel that a longer second act would have helped with the rushed feel to their relationship and the finale. I would have happily read 80-100K words of these two.
I was also disappointed with the copy editing and found a few instances where a side character’s name was misspelled from one page to the next, which wouldn’t have been a big deal but it threw me out of the story for a moment as I tried to figure out who was being mentioned.
Overall, these issues were minor and I thoroughly enjoyed the story and am eager to read anything else Thomas writes.
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Lord Mouse (Audible Audio Edition) Mason Thomas Joel Leslie Dreamspinner Press LLC Books Reviews
I liked this book quite a bit. It was very quickly paced and kept my attention. Our two main characters are Mouse and Lord Garron. Mouse is a man who lends his services for things that need to be found and/or liberated from those who own them. He's kind of a complicated character, not afraid to kill if the job calls for it, but with his own odd sense of honor. Garron is a person he has been hired to find after having been imprisoned in the workings of a political plot. Honestly, his character was perhaps a little bit boring, but I'm ok with that because I think we needed it for Mouse. Mouse is such a moral grey area that I think his leading man needed to be almost boringly good and genuine to act as a foil.
Pros
-fun, fast paced story
-loved the characters, including the secondary ones
-very funny at times
-felt like the relationship between the two mains was authentic
Cons
-very insta-love (which doesn't bother some people, but I prefer a little more detail about how two characters fall for each other)
-story could have been longer, most of the action takes places within a few days and I feel like we could have gotten a lot out of a bit more journeying/adventuring
-the ending felt rushed
I think I would have put this as a four star if this hadn't been insta-love. It's a particular pet peeve of mine.
The writing and the main character are engaging. There are flaws in both writing and characterization, however, so this book is far, far from a high quality novel. The story is interesting, and I found myself not wanting to put it down. This was largely because of the dynamic plot, which was sometimes predictable but vividly narrated, with brief but imagistic detail about the setting, with to-the-point descriptions of characters' actions, and with occasional clever or surprising actions by the characters. On the downside, the plot is simple and linear. There are gaps in the plot between chapters and, on a couple of occasions, this was disorienting. Another reason I liked the novel was because the main character was appealing. He is nuanced - clever, but he gets fooled at times, prejudiced, but he is able to look past his prejudices, aggressive, but he is also able to care about other people and ideas. He is, unfortunately, either not fully psychologically believable, or simply not enough information was provided about him. For example, it is unclear, given his background, why his verbal intelligence, fighting skills, and thieving skills are so well developed, and how or why he understands the politics of the high nobility so well. There is a single mention toward the end of the book alluding that he took after his father, who was a good fighter, and that's about it. Thus, the main character is not believable in terms of his psychological development. There are other, bigger problems with the novel. A major one is the secondary character, Garron. His motivations remain puzzling and implausible throughout the novel. He comes across as a cartoonish character, who is naively idealistic and virtuous in a world in which this seems highly unlikely. Toward the end of the novel, there is a half-hearted attempt to make him look a little more nuanced by suggesting that he had hidden something from Mouse, the main character, but Garron remains an overall uneblievable character. There are more issues with the novel that could have been fixed. For example, Mouse's ability to predict the behavior of people and influence them appears highly unrealistic. She is depicted as a short, somewhat gruff, somewhat disgruntled commoner and a thief, yet, by just active assertively, he gets his way over and over again. Statistically speaking, some of his attempts at influencing others should have failed, especially given his characterization. There is also a perseverative quality to the way in which characters decide on their own to help him at their own risk. The owner of the brothel, the former captain of the house guard, the 15-year old lordling, they all just sort of fall in with Mouse and try to help him, following a repetitive, implausible, perseverative pattern. Perhaps the authors was trying to make a point about Mouse's being a better person than he seemed at first, but the pattern is, nevertheless, not believable. Finally, the book has problems that could have easily been fixed, i.e., occasional typos, particularly missing articles and prepositions.
I’ve been reading a lot of great books lately but it’s been a rare thing to find a book that hits all my literary kinks.
I’ve been searching for well crafted fantasy with queer characters for so long I almost decided to write something myself. Then I happened upon a review by Just Love that sounded promising.
Boy did it deliver.
Lord Mouse is everything I’ve been lusting after in a fantasy novel. The main character is Mouse, a tiny little badass thief and assassin, and no he doesn’t have a heart of gold but he does pride himself on a job well done. If you can afford him. He’s never failed a job and when he gets a chance at a challenging job that pays more coin than he’s ever seen he’s not about to turn it down.
And that’s exactly what gets him into trouble.
Thomas does a fantastic job at throwing you right into Mouse’s world and a dark, dirty, gritty world it is. Thomas takes you from the cruel criminal underbelly, up the rungs of the social ladder in a way that feels natural, but not too easy. Mouse has to work for his contacts and information and sometimes it’s a blade and sometimes it’s a bed.
As an asexual I’m not a big fan of casual hook-ups but the sex scenes were never gratuitous and were mostly fade-to-black moments. This was something I appreciated. The story was about Mouse’s character growth, not about sexual escapades.
It was also very refreshing to read a book where being gay wasn’t something to angst over. It was just treated as part of who he is, which in my opinion, is as it should be.
I loved getting to know Mouse but I sincerely wish the story had been longer and I think it should have been. The first act is spent getting Mouse into position to do this big rescue mission and then we spend the next act of the book with him trying to escape. I did enjoy it very much, but I felt the last third was rushed and would have liked to have seen Garron and Mouse get to know each other better before the end. The big reveal at the end could have packed a lot more punch had we had a chance to get to know Garron better.
Ideally the rescue could have happened by the end of the first act and the second act could have had a longer build up to the finale. I feel that a longer second act would have helped with the rushed feel to their relationship and the finale. I would have happily read 80-100K words of these two.
I was also disappointed with the copy editing and found a few instances where a side character’s name was misspelled from one page to the next, which wouldn’t have been a big deal but it threw me out of the story for a moment as I tried to figure out who was being mentioned.
Overall, these issues were minor and I thoroughly enjoyed the story and am eager to read anything else Thomas writes.
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