Review by sunn_bleach - The Spear Cuts Through Water

sunn_bleach 's review for:

The Spear Cuts Through Water by Simon Jimenez

4.25

adventurous inspiring reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Frankly, it earns the hype. Using different fonts for each voice gave this book a Greek chorus feeling with new insights as opposed to repetition. That concept humanizes the one-off killed soldiers and characters treated as cannon fodder in so many other media. "Humanizes"? Too blasé of a word; the man you killed had hopes and dreams outside of being a soldier, too (as immortalized in Tim O'Brien's "The Man I Killed" from The Things They Carried). Successfully got over my bias against epic fantasy, and oh my poor sweet boy the defect tortoise, you deserved the world.

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