· The Phoenix Guards by Steven Brust. Click here for the lowest price! Mass Market Paperback, , · Under that, however, one sees Brust's gift for narrative style and storytelling, and The Phoenix Guards is recognizable as the same core told in a stuffy voice with elaborate embelishments. Fans of the Vlad Taltos series will definitely want to give it a try, as will any fan of The Three Musketeers. Book 1. The Phoenix Guards. by Steven Brust. · 4, Ratings · Reviews · published · 11 editions. A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, . Want to Read. Shelving menu. Shelve The Phoenix Guards. Want to Read.
The Phoenix Guards is a witty, skillfully-written novel chock full of adventure and intrigue. Author Steven Brust is a chameleon when it comes to writing styles, and the style most people compare this novel to is that of the old French romantics, and more specifically, that of Alexandre Dumas. The Phoenix Guards|Steven Brust are living in the digital age, when people completely depend on The Phoenix Guards|Steven Brust written information: texting, messaging, media posts - if something is not written online, it's like it does not exist. However used to writing modern-day people might be, the necessity to write a full-fledged letter. The first time I picked up this book, I was expecting something similar to Brust's Taltos series, so I couldn't get into it. The second time, through sheer serendipity, I checked it out along with The Three Musketeers which I re-read first. That time, I got it: The Phoenix Guards brilliantly, lovingly parodies The Three Musketeers, right down to the long-winded and slightly pretentious narrator.
Set in the same world as Stephen Brust's beloved Vlad Taltos books, The Phoenix Guards is a fantasy rewrite of The Three Musketeers—a swashbuckling tale of adventure. A thousand years before the birth of Vlad Taltos, the Dragaeran Empire is a hotbed of intrigue, sorcery, intrigue, wild adventure, and intrigue. The Phoenix Guards (): Steven Brust. January 6, Ap. The Phoenix Guards is a fantasy novel by American writer Steven Brust, the first novel in the Khaavren Romances series, set in the fictional world of Dragaera. Like the other books in that series, the novel is heavily influenced by the d'Artagnan Romances written by Alexandre Dumas, and is written by Brust in the voice and persona of a Dragaeran novelist, Paarfi of Roundwood, whose style is a tongue-in-cheek parody of Dumas, matching both his swashbuckling sense of adventure and his penchant.
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