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The Broken Blade by Simon Hawke

jdelvillar's review against another edition

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4.0

Not a lot happens in this compared to other world-spanning fantasy novels. It's fairly granular and serves mainly to explore Sorak and his relationship with the world around him.

The Dark Sun setting is a favorite of mine and this is a fair journey into it. There is a little too much metal for my taste but beyond that it works well. I find I particularly liked the dialogues between Sorak and Kieran.

It hit some tropes and avoided a couple others and contained some decent political intrigue.
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