gasoline_allie 's review for:

The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley

3.0

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This is the most conflicted I've been in a long time. In some ways, this was a 5-star book. In significant other ways, this was a 1-star, should have tossed it unfinished into the bin, sort of book.

I'd love to gush about the world, the politics, and everything I loved, but holy crap. Fantasy deserves women who are better written than this.

I'm in no rush to continue the series, and that is just another disappointment.