The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman is grim, gritty, humorous and more often, a hell of a fun, fantasy adventure. Furthermore, the war is constructed around a joke stealing protagonist named Kinch who has to go on a perilous mission to pay back a particular guild and go with a warrior. Return of Buehlman, magic, battles and plot twists and this book is as funny and intelligent as it is unsatisfying and sad with an amazing and engrossing world and characters.