What would I do without Rach to provide me with good books that she knows I would enjoy? Seriously. I’d have to rely soley on browsing through Chapters…

One night, Mosca springs a man from the town “jail,” in exchange for him providing her with a job as a secretary. This man has been labeled a cheat, and is going to be sent to the next big town for a trial, but Mosca has fallen in love with the way he speaks, the words he uses. Unfortunately for her, Clent does not want to be burdened down with said secretary. Or her goose.

Using her wiles, however, Mosca manages to stick by Clent, and ends up helping him spy on other guilds in a big city, and attempting to prevent a war.

I found this book started a little slow, but once I got about a third of the way into it, I had a hard time putting it down. It had adventure, has dashing highway men, and used wonderful words. Any book where the characters have a thing for good words is a good book for me.

The only other thing I didn’t like about this book was that I couldn’t tell which characters to like or dislike. One minute I liked one of them, the next I really didn’t, then I was back to really liking them. I don’t know if the author wrote it purposely so people would do that or not, but it was a little unsettling.