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Die Klinge des Königs

Kirsten Borchardt, Melissa Blair

3.93 AVERAGE

riyira's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

My first time with this author, keeping my personal goal of 2025 alive. Of all the books I read I want 33% of them to be new authors to me. This is also a Canadian author which is a double win for me as I am Canadian.

I was in search of an Assassin based book. I asked ChatGPT to list me a bunch so I could find some new characters to delve into. This book was on that list, along with five or six more I have to get to as well. I love Assassin and ranger based fantasy novels.

So the story itself is good. The main characters are interesting and do a good bit of growing through the story. A couple of characters in here that I am quite enjoying hating. I take that as a sign of a good writer. The character is alive enough to have a love/hate relationship with.

A new presentation on the halfling fantasy race. I have been reading fantasy for over 45 years and this one for me anyway is an interesting twist. I do not dislike it. It did give me pause to think.

The use of magic is minimal and seems rather rare. I dont find this to be a bad thing, just when dealing with elves and the fae I expected more. Again, not a bad thing, just not what I expected.

All in all there is enough here to get me on to book two at some point. But like I said, a few other new author, assassin themed books to look into as well.

mjai13's review against another edition

4.75

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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

paige453's review against another edition

3.25

medium-paced

emilyckg's review against another edition

3.75

adventurous dark emotional hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

bucksandbooks's review against another edition

3.75

Ngl, missed a bit of this. 😝

curatedbymiranda's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous challenging emotional sad tense slow-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

stuffed_with_books's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Good story and world building. The plot hit the notes needed to continue to the next book. I enjoyed the self-healing journey the main character undergoes, it was refreshing to read. Good audiobook narration. Light on the spice, but it fits the story.

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