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A Broken Blade

Melissa Blair

3.93 AVERAGE

adventurous challenging dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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adventurous
adventurous dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous medium-paced
Strong character development: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious reflective sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring reflective tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

I LOVED this book I really enjoyed the writing style and also the breadth of characters and character development and it was just my type of writing boom loved.
dark medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No

The brautiful cover instantly attracted me, and you know, every book that has an assassin in it is a must read.
The book was nice . I mean it would've been greater if it was a little bit longer, and if we got a little more of the world building.
Keera was an interesting character , but all we get about her is that she is an assassin ( the king's blade) that has a very tragic backstory ( we know so little about this backstory) . What bothered me is that we don't get to know more about Riven and the other characters but i guess it's normal since it's only the first book of a serie. The second book seems promising.
And for the writing it was great, especially since it was the firat book of the author .
It's a 3,5 stars read for me. Could've been more if it was longer.

3.5 stars. Some parts definitely piqued my interest and I'm looking forward to continuing the series, but it does at times feel like every beloved booktok trope stuffed into a very unoriginal book.