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Pathfinder Tales: Shy Knives

By: Sam Sykes
Narrated by: Khristine Hvam
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Pathfinder Tales: Shy Knives is based on the award-winning world of the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. With more than a million players worldwide, Pathfidner is the world's most popular tabletop RPG.

Shaia "Shy" Ratani is a clever rogue who makes her living outside of strictly legal methods. While hiding out in the frontier city of Yanmass, she accepts a job solving a nobleman's murder, only to find herself sucked into a plot involving an invading centaur army that could see the whole city burned to the ground. Shy could stop that from happening, but doing so would involve revealing herself to the former friends who now want her dead. Add in an aristocratic partner with the literal blood of angels in her veins, and Shy quickly remembers why she swore off doing good deeds in the first place.

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I didn't know much about the world of Pathfinder (other than it's beginnings as an adaptation of the D&D game) so I was intrigued to discover the Pathfinder Tales series. I chose Shy Knives as my starting point because I've been following Sam Sykes on Twitter for a while but had not yet read any of his books. It has been a long time since I last read D&D-based fiction--or any Fantasy at all--but I had a vague idea of what to expect: swords & sorcery, monsters & mayhem, heroes & villains and probably a quest.

Turns out Fantasy has changed since I last delved into the genre. Sure, most of the elements were there, but Shy Knives is closer to a murder-mystery thriller than the road-trip quest tale I'm used to. A nobleman has been murdered, and Shaia "Shy" Ratani is hired by the widow to find out who was responsible, and why.

I loved the characterization of Shy: her humour, her snarkiness, her drive. She has to investigate the murder, follow the clues, all while keeping one step ahead of her own past. Oh, and there may be owlbears. Certainly the story had plenty going on. "Save the world, get the girl" ... or something like that. It would be great to have more adventures of Shy, and I am definitely keen to read more by Sam Sykes, and more of the Pathfinder Tales.

Khristine Hvam did a wonderful job of bringing Shy's first-person narrative to life. I'm actually seeking out more books narrated by her.

A poor narrator can bring down a great story; a poor story can be helped along by a great narrator. In Shy Knives, all the elements were top notch, and came together to create a thoroughly entertaining audio book.

Top notch entertainment

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