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Five Broken Blades by Mai Corland

49 reviews

dhrutibc's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

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brethebookbean's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Loveable characters: Yes

I wasn’t expecting a lot coming into this but honestly?? I loved it!! This book was whitty and fast, the characters were all lovable! I truly didn’t want to put it down or finish it!

I loved that the characters had complex and unique back stories, I was questioning everyone and their motives the whole time I was reading. The world is expansive but it makes sense! The place this really shows up in the writing, everyone has their own voice!! All six of them! From Aeirie sounding childish and silly to Royo who reads as a more blunt character. Everyone was so unique!! I literally can’t wait to read book 2!!!

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littledhampir's review against another edition

5.0

adventurous dark 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

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skyladoragono's review against another edition

4.25

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Hnnnnnnnngh, I got so invested in these six idiots and their problems and goals that the plot almost felt secondary to the great character development everyone went through. No spoils, but the main goal falling to the wayside in favor of the characters turned out to be the whole point of the book! I loved the plot twist at the end, and I'm excited to see where the characters take their propensity for bold face lying in the next book.

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honeycupreads's review against another edition

4.0

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

It might just be me being oblivious but I actually was shocked during the last 30-40 minutes of this book.

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boba_nbooks's review against another edition

4.5

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious 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: Yes

Spice Rating: 🌶️.5 / 5

This 6-person-POV (yes, you read that right--SIX) high fantasy novel is extremely entertaining and had me continuously unsure of who I could trust.

Five of the most dangerous and experienced thieves, assassins, and liars have been mysteriously brought together to kill King Joon--the merciless and famously immortal king of Yusan. These five untrustworthy people have to come together and somehow earn each other's trust in order to succeed in their mission. Can they set aside their personal ambitions and complete their task? Or will they end up betraying each other in the end?

I listened to Five Broken Blades on audio and loved the experience of hearing a full cast narrate all 6 POVs. I found this novel to be quite enjoyable and even found myself becoming so attached to the characters I would be frustrated when they would hide information from each other or wouldn't admit their feelings for one another. The story is chock full of mystery, intrigue, and romance ensuring almost any kind of reader will be entertained.

I do wish there was more world building as I was confused by the religious/god system, but I have high hopes that the author will dig deeper into it in the next book. Though the ending had a great plot twist and tied up the plot just enough, I'm still ready to fall back into the world and already have book 2 preordered.

Fans of fast-paced fantasy romance novels will absolutely eat Five Broken Blades up.

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super_maher_io's review against another edition

3.5

adventurous dark emotional tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

In the beginning the characters are a little flat and incongruent, often with too much internal monologue, “voices” that are very similar and, internally contradictory thinking.

Most of these shortfalls are sorted out as the story unfolds; however, the tween-type dialogue and relationships don’t change too much. Overall it was a pretty enjoyable book, I think I will be continuing this series.

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princess_link's review against another edition

3.5

emotional funny mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I really wanted this story to be one book. I'm not sure if I'll continue because while some of the characters were lovable and interesting, others weren't. I enjoyed the writing most of the time, but parts were dry and robotic.

The plot twist was pretty good and took me relatively by surprise. Unfortunately, the twist is also why this is more than one book.

I think it's probably just not for me because I can't say it was bad overall, but I felt disappointed with the whole experience anyway.

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