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Five Broken Blades

Mai Corland

3.82 AVERAGE

adventurous mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

This is between a 3.5 and a 4. It was really good! The twist at the end was cool. You care about the characters. However the storyline moves very quickly and there are alot of characters to keep track of.
adventurous dark 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 hopeful mysterious slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: N/A
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

The start and end dates say it all. I had a really hard time getting into this book and I almost gave it up because it was all over the place. It sort of hit a stride towards the end, but it took a lot to get there. I have the next book in the series, so I might keep going, but I’m not sure it’s worth it. TBD.

3/5
This started strong, and I appreciated the effort, but overall it was a pretty underwhelming fantasy read. Although I found it easy to follow, the six different POVs made for very little character development, and therefore lowered the stakes so muchso that by the ending, there wasn’t any one charactor that I was truly rooting for or invested in. Definitely a quick & easy read, but would not recommend to lovers of high/world-building fantasy.
adventurous challenging mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated
adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-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 challenging dark 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

LOL WTFFFF this book was insane HAHAA just a bunch of horny liars trying to kill their god king.
the ending had me shookith, thanks for the rec kaitlin
adventurous hopeful mysterious 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