The next in
the Myth series, Skeeve, a still-learning magician, and his friend Aahz from
the dimension of Perv are living pretty comfortably. They have managed to get
into a position where they are able to collect fees both from the mob and the
town they are supposed to protect from the mob. One night, Skeeve manages to
win a lot of money in poker even if he doesn’t know the complicated rules of
the game. As collateral for part of the winning, he gets to his surprise a
young girl. New females in his life won’t stop there: he gets as a present from
a mob leader a “molly”, a nice looking young woman, who is supposed to be his
girlfriend and is very friendly. At some point, he finds out that there is
someone who is aiming to destroy his reputation, and he is supposed to take
part in a very high stakes poker game as he was good at the earlier game.
Not nearly
as good as some of the first installments of the series. The humor is pretty
forced and mostly not very funny. The main characters are starting to be pretty
irritating and the plot feels forced (and very aged).
208 pp.
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