Soldier of Sidon

I really liked this third entry in the Latro series, much more than Soldier of the Mist and Soldier of Arete. But, like his first two novels, I was occasionally lost. In this book, I somehow missed that Lucius (known as Latro to many of his adventuring acquaintances) had made it home before going on a third outing. As with the first two books, there are many spots where I got a little lost, which I think is intentional on Wolfe's part. It's part of the conceit of the book. Latro still has severe memory loss, not remembering the past and forgetting the events of each yesterday. So we only know as much as Latro writes down on his scroll and he doesn't write everything as a fluid narrative, but as a tool to help him remember what has happened from day to day. By this third book, I totally bought into the conceit and was happy to be back in this world where every day is completely brand new. This book won the 2007 World Fantasy Award.

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