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A review by crowyhead
The Battle of Blood and Ink: A Fable of the Flying City by Jared Axelrod
2.0
Ok, the beginning 3/4 of this book are delightful, and the artwork's a lot of fun -- not always 100% spot-on, anatomically, and sometimes people's faces look a bit misshapen, but overall it looks great. Very Indiana Jones or Prince Valiant-but-better, somehow. The setting's fun: a flying city ruled by an evil woman known as the Provost. And the main character is a spitfire young woman named Ashe who runs an underground newspaper and has a head of red dreadlocks. What's not to love?
Well, the ending, for one. And it's driving me crazy because I want to complain about its stupidity at length, but I don't really want to spoil it. Just suffice it to say that the main character had a method in her hands for fixing something horribly wrong with her city, and she very nearly kills everyone and then they're saved by... some kind of unforeseen third method that there was no hint would work. It made me want to bite someone.
Well, the ending, for one. And it's driving me crazy because I want to complain about its stupidity at length, but I don't really want to spoil it. Just suffice it to say that the main character had a method in her hands for fixing something horribly wrong with her city, and she very nearly kills everyone and then they're saved by... some kind of unforeseen third method that there was no hint would work. It made me want to bite someone.