Reviews

Breach of Peace by Daniel B. Greene

maciek_gluc's review

adventurous informative inspiring mysterious tense fast-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

4.0

sophmxc's review against another edition

adventurous mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No

2.5

Loved the idea of this book but not so much the execution. I think if it was a bit longer then they would have been able to go more in depth with characters and plot as they felt quite surface level. 
I think there could have been more hints along the way - the Chosen was dropped at the end and felt quite convenient. Actually a lot of the story in the final third of the book felt quite convenient and the story was told rather than shown. 

rendly's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.5

heidimflores's review

mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

bookish_brain_rot's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

3.0

nyx_books's review

4.0

A really good first book for this serie. The world is interesting, I really like the themes, but it was maybe too edgy, with too much gore ? It's 100% a personnal opinion but it was a bit too much for me, I liked the stosy nonetheless but I cannot give it 5 stars because of that.

bailie2024's review against another edition

5.0

Love the characters
Love the writing style
Love the world
Love the plot twists

Hate the wait for the next book

hippityhoppity's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.5

raulterhes's review

3.0

Daniel's debut novella, Breach Of Peace, is the a pretty good detective story set in a fantasy world. Listened to this as an audiobook narrated by Kate Reading and Michael Kraemer which really gave it a nice character. It's a grim dark story set in an industrial era fantasy world. There apparently is an empire ruled by a God ( that sounds fun). The main characters are three detectives who upon finding a brutal (like off the charts, Joe Abercrombie style, brutal), investigate that murder.

As I understand this like a prequeal to a main series. So let's see where that goes.

What I liked:
- The world in which this is set seems to be something really interesting, which I would really like to see more of, especially the part with God and the Chosen ones.
- The action scenes were really well crafted and conveyed a good sense of what was happening, along with pretty gruesome imagery. Big thumbs up for that.
- Really great idea of a detective in a fantasy world. I guess it kinda takes after The Dresden Files, so I'll definitely have to check that out.
- The plot twist (kind of plot twist I guess) at the end was quite interesting.

Why only 3 stars?
- The characters were pretty much underdeveloped and sometimes a bit cliche. It wasn't too rough but for me this keeps a book from going above 3 stars.

Would I recommend it?
Well yeah maybe. The audiobook, this coming from someone who does not usually listens to audiobooks, makes it worthwhile. I listened to it in a couple of days while doing other stuff.

Will I read/listen to more of his books?
For sure. I like Daniels YouTube channel a lot, that's why I tried this. He has a lot of potential. Yes there is a lot of work needed but I believe he can do it.

adwaitkhedkar's review

4.0

*3.5 but 3 seems too low*

Fast paced, really just the prologue of whats to come. I had fun reading it, the foreshadowing threw me off but it was still pretty good. I really like Daniels videos and don't know how to feel about this, I definitely don't LOVE it but it's not meh either.