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The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley

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meardaba's review against another edition

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adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

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

5.0

kelsieelsie's review

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So slow, no real explanation of what was happening the main character just accepted everything so we never got explanations of plot points

emskidua's review against another edition

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4.0

THAT is how you write a strong female lead <3

mollysticks's review against another edition

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4.0

What a fun little read. It was rather confusing the way the author just switches between past memories and the present. I wish the book style was better. I enjoyed the story, unique to me.

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1.0

What was that? She just, because she's "special", gets a magic cat, a magic horse, a magic sword and suddenly has random powers? And yet, she's one of the most passive, plodding, incurious "heroes" I've ever read. She gets kidnapped, doesn't ask questions. Continually given dangerous drugs without her knowledge or consent, oh, no big deal. Going to be put into these violent "trials", oh, no need to know anything about them. Seriously, she never really questions any of this. Or when she does, very briefly question anything, she just gets told "oh, we can't tell you because...uh, fate or something" and she's all "oh, that's fine, I didn't actually really want to know anything about any of the things that are going on around me or what's happening to my life".