Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Giant Thief
    Unavailable
    Giant Thief
    Unavailable
    Giant Thief
    Ebook360 pages5 hours

    Giant Thief

    By David Tallerman

    3/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    Listen to the audiobook instead

    About this ebook

    Meet Easie Damasco, rogue, thieving swine and total charmer.

    Even the wicked can't rest when a vicious warlord and the force of enslaved giants he commands invade their homeland.  Damasco might get away in one piece, but he's going to need help.
     
    Big time.
     
    File Under: Fantasy [ Big Trouble | Deception | Saltlick's City | Hang 'im High ]

    e-book ISBN: 978-0-85766-212-5
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateJan 31, 2012
    ISBN9780857662125
    Author

    David Tallerman

    David Tallerman's fantasy, science fiction and horror short stories have appeared in numerous markets, including Lightspeed, Bull Spec, Redstone Science Fiction and John Joseph Adams's zombie best-of The Living Dead. Amongst other projects, David has published poetry, comic scripts, and an award winning short film. He can be found online at http://davidtallerman.net/ and http://davidtallerman.blogspot.com/. The author lives in Yorkshire, England.

    Read more from David Tallerman

    Related to Giant Thief

    Related ebooks

    Fantasy For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      A Walk On The Wild Side

      Dec 3, 2018

      A Walk On The Wild Side
      6 min read

    • Article

      Community Of Peers

      Feb 10, 2021

      After the war, I travelled to a village in the south of the province. It was my intention to vacation for the weekend in an unknown land. I followed a small river that was alternately green beneath the foliage of the forest and blue while it coursed

      6 min read

    • Article

      Watership Down

      Nov 6, 2017

      Watership Down
      6 min read

    • Article

      A Close Encounter With A Lion

      May 25, 2023

      My Dear Baker Mrs Oswell and myself thoroughly enjoyed our stay with you and your charming wife in June. It was a true pleasure for us both to renew old times and friendship. We trust that your trip to India will be a pleasant one, and the ship you a

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of Small Talk

      May 26, 2023

      The Art Of Small Talk
      5 min read

    • Article

      The Great Australian Novel

      Oct 18, 2021

      The Great Australian Novel
      3 min read

    • Article

      Four Poems

      Mar 1, 2024

      I was trying to look a little less like myselfand more like other humans, humans who belonged, so I put on a skort.Purchased in another life, when I had a husband and wrote thank-you notes and held dinner parties,the skort even had its own little poc

      6 min read

    • Article

      Scoping The Savanna

      Aug 13, 2019

      Scoping The Savanna
      6 min read

    • Article

      HUNTING With The Ellements…

      Sep 13, 2021

      HUNTING With The Ellements…
      19 min read

    • Article

      Perfect Prose II

      May 15, 2020

      Perfect Prose II
      4 min read

    • Article

      Oh, Corona

      Jan 1, 2024

      Books The Lights by Ben Lerner Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 128 pp., $26.00 (hardcover) According to the latest Times article on the qualitative merits of bot art, Ben Lerner has lent excerpts from his new poetry collection to a group of venture c

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Art Of The Beachcomber

      May 12, 2023

      Research isn’t just for acquiring knowledge—it’s creatively generative, too The post The Art of the Beachcomber appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      Hook, Line And Sinker

      Oct 18, 2018

      Hook, Line And Sinker
      4 min read

    • Article

      100-WORD-STORY COMPETITION Winners

      Aug 16, 2022

      We’ve been delighted by the huge response to our 100-word-story competition. The entries have flooded in thick and fast during the past few months, but while we’ve enjoyed reading every story, only a few can come out on top! You, our readers, voted t

      5 min read

    • Article

      Purpose

      Aug 10, 2020

      “It is perfectly ridiculous to go about whimpering and drawing long faces because the scientists have added one more chance of painful and premature death to a world which already bristled with such chances and in which death itself was not a chance

      3 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz

      Dec 23, 2019

      Chalk it up in the How Books Are Bad column, I guess: They shore you up as a reading subject instead of letting you blur out. What a misdeed. The post A Year in Reading: Dustin Kurtz appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      Dark Tales

      Dec 2, 2021

      Dark Tales
      6 min read

    • Article

      Curtain Up On A Rabbit Woodstock

      Aug 18, 2021

      Curtain Up On A Rabbit Woodstock
      5 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Nick Moran

      Dec 8, 2019

      All of us are viewing but one face of the cultural sphere. The one I see will always be different from yours, but damned if I won't try to show it to you. The post A Year in Reading: Nick Moran appeared first on The Millions.

      8 min read

    • Article

      THE FIRST FIVE PAGES: KJ Maitland

      Apr 1, 2021

      Writing historical crime thrillers often feels like one of those crazy circus acts where you have to stand on the backs of two galloping horses, with one foot on each, trying to keep your balance. One of the horses is the historical facts, the other

      6 min read

    • Article

      I and Thou: A Bigfoot Encounter

      Dec 16, 2019

      I and Thou: A Bigfoot Encounter
      17 min read

    Reviews for Giant Thief

    3/5

    21 ratings3 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 1/5
      Meh.This book can be a fun diversion -- I did read it all the the way through in the course of a day, after all -- but it's not very original and it's not all that well written. I have as little idea of what motivates some of the characters now as I did when I first met them, three hundred and fifty pages ago, and I didn't believe in the danger that they faced, not least because I was given no reason to particularly root for anyone other than Saltlick -- and only for him in absence of anyone else reasonably sympathetic. The treatment of Saltlick's character was terrible: he's smarter than you think, but let's keep treating him and other giants like him like a total idiot throughout the narrative (not just the characters doing this, but the narrative as a whole).That and at least one inexplicable volte-face that goes against a given character's whole worldview mean I can't recommend this. It's light, even sort of labouredly funny, but so light it'll have melted from my memory by morning.(And in case you were wondering, my memory is generally pretty good. I can quote you word for word a conversation my girlfriend and I had seven years ago. My short term memory is a little bit shot from meds, but I remember plenty of bad books: this managed to be, instead, decidedly mediocre and totally unremarkable.)
    • 3/5
      Nice pacing, and the protagonist's voice is fairly enjoyable, but the events failed to grab my interest.
    • 4/5
      Fun fantasy.Lured in by a fun title and silly cover but sold on the humorous excerpt I read. This is your typical fantasy setting, but no detailed world building and in-depth discussion of how the magic system works. Bang we hit the 1st fantasy trope (of hanging thief) before we are off on a wise cracking adventure set amongst potential civil war and the odd giant. If there are no surprises there is much relief that Tallerman delivers, the action is well done, the pace fast and the characters flesh out and (the most difficult) constantly amusing. Easie damasco is great rogue to hang a tale on and it doesn't even stop the humour or drag the story as he slowly matures. If fact it’s a hook to hang the next book on, one that I will be buying.Recommended to fantasy fans and those looking for a fast paced read.