TaT Re-read Starts Today!

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

We're re-read Thick as Thieves here on sounis this month to celebrate the first anniversary of its release. Click HERE for the reading schedule and more info on how you can participate.

This week we're reading CHAPTERS 1-3 (p1-85)* 85 pages total or approximately the first 2 hours and 10 minutes of the audio narration if you're listening.

Revist Kamet's aquaphobia, Costis speaking Mede like an over-sized child, Laela's deceptive pallor, escaping the Namreen on a slow moving river boat that's on fire, and Kamet as an apathetic caravan guard.

This particular re-read will be a little more interactive, as we're asking each participant to make their own post each week for discussing the book(s) rather then follow a lead. Feel free to also use the comment section of this post to discuss. If you don't have anything to say one particular week, just skip on to the next.

In case you wanted to revist the initial TaT discussions from 2017, you can find that HERE.

Happy reading!

*page numbers are from the 2017 hardcover edition.

Comments

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

I was so excited to read this again!

Just finished chapter one and a few things already...

(1) Kamet saying crooked men assume others are crooked is a nice call back to Helen's philanders assume others are philandering in QoA.

(2) Do the imbalanced accounts and Rakra have something to do with Nahuseresh's possible disloyalty to his brother, Naheelid? The missing money could be going to nefarious dealings.

(3) Ah, another reason Ornon came along... He must've met Kamet during or prior to QoA, and was the one to point him out to Costis. Costis wouldn't know what he looked like.

Costis has clearly watched Kamet for some time. How else did he magically appear at the perfect moment to tell him to meet at the docks?

(4) Kamet refers to Eddis, Attolia, Sounis as city states. Does that mean the only large cities are the capitals and everything else is small towns and farming viliages?

Boating

[sclerotia.livejournal.com]

I have question for someone who knows more about boating than I. Why would it be perfectly natural for a small riverboat to go up river at night, but be practically unheard of for it to go down river at night?

[drollittle.livejournal.com]

Ornon may have gone to Mede as ambassador just because he is a good ambassador and Costis conveniently fit into his traveling group and then split off for his own mission. If Costis was part of the guard in Attolia or Ephrata while Kamet was there, he would likely know Kamet by sight. (There’s a fun fanfic about Ornon during TaT by Transposable_Element).

Goofy theory: what if the bad actors for the cheap production of Immakuk and Ennikar were actually Immakuk and Ennikar? And that’s how Costis recognized them later?

[ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com]

I love how Immakuk just strolls into the inn after setting all those boats on fire. XD I guess that was one way to help Costis and Kamet avoid dectection by the Namreen...