A review by whoareyouhannah
The Court of Broken Knives by Anna Smith Spark

2.0

I don't think that this is necessarily a bad book or that Anna Smith Spark doesn't know how to write. But I did not enjoy reading this book. When you have a story where every single character is some kind of asshole and everything is going to hell anyway, I simply stop caring. I ran into the same problem when reading "Prince of Thornes" by Mark Lawrence. While I am a big fan of grim dark fantasy, I felt that this story was so much over the top, so dark and bloody and terrible and twisted and hopeless and horrible and disgusting, going on and on with violence and murder and destruction, it kind of left me numb and uncaring. I'm not interested how things will end for any of the characters, so I'm not going to finish reading the trilogy. If you liked the book, I'm glad for you, but it's not the right story for me.