Review of "A Smile of Fortune," a short story by Adam Kisiel
Summary: A story of minstrels, mages, murderers and debt collectors! Carefree bard Crispin coming back home from his parsimonious uncle's funeral does not expect that soon he will be mixed up in a murky intrigue involving magic, fear and a dwarf working as a debt-collector. First book of the "Bard Crispin stories" series - a full of adventure, humour and mystery classic fantasy story. Review: This story was scattered. It begins with a promising start by presenting a protagonist in the form of Crispin the Bard. There is an engaging opening scene that involves Crispin meeting a halfling named Bibble. This was pretty much the only part of the story that was really clear to me. Crispin and Bibble travel to a city together and the story takes off... in every direction. Bibble is arrested and then we never hear from him again. Apparently they weren't the BFFs the author lead us to believe? New characters start to be introduce...