Books like War in Tethyr

Hard to rate that book. It got potential for a higher score but fail to pass to the next level.The basic story is good. Veteran Mage-warrior Zarranda Starr need money to pay is estate to retire to she organized a caravan to make money. After a few fights she arrived in the city to have it confiscated by corrupted local official. She got caught in the political intrigue and finish the by fighting deep evil in the city.The problem is the first half of the book is only about the caravan and fight that are too easily won. You only know that she and her comrades are powerful. Milan introduced too much weirdness in the book: a talking mare, talking skull, bugbear servant, Orc paladin (accept fighting he only make one paladin feat), dying priest... Too much thing that didn't serve the principal intrigue directly. It's more like many good short stories.The second half is more on the intrigue so it keep you interest. Again you got a character that come from no where and only served to save the day. Lot of repetition (another book that need to tell us that a ranger didn't like cities every 50 pages). Also you need to love hero plucking dozen of arrows from his body to continue to fight by will only.Again you got many good idea in this book, It would be better if the author has cut some gimmick and developed more the second half of the book. Looking in my collection, I got at least two other Battletech book wrote by Milan, I hope it will be more focus. Not bad but should have been better!