Ill Met in Lankhmar - Fritz Leiber Book Review

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Lankhmar, the marsh-bound city of the seven smokes, and the black toga, is the meeting place for the second time for Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser, who the first time around merely spied each other from afar, but had a feeling their destinies were to be entwined. And so, under cover of darkness and in the swirling lankmarian fog they join forces to attack and rob a gang of thieves from the Thieves' Guild. A simple mater for the sword adept twain, but one that unfortunately for them, leads to the demise of their girlfriends, Ivrian and Vlana: their being devoured by wizard summoned rats, a matter that will haunt them for many years to come.
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Plot
War or Invasion Yes
Major kinds of combat: - hand to hand - sword fights - ocean ship battles
Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book

Main Character
Identity: - Male
Age: - 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - bulging muscles

Main Adversary
Identity: - magical being
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status: - dictator
Has magical powers? Yes
Magical/mental powers of main antagonist: - can change shapes - mind reading - mind control - can see into the future - teleportation - can cast all sorts of spells
Eccentric: Yes - eccentric
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - a moderate amount
How sensitive is this character? - hard edged
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Smarter than most other characters
Physique - average physique

Setting
Terrain - Desert - Water - Mountains - Domed/Underground City
Earth setting: - general past
Takes place on Earth? Yes

Style
Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths
Sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - vague references only - major character becomes a sex slave
How much dialogue? - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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