A review by ailurolily
The Blade Itself by Joe Abercrombie

adventurous dark tense slow-paced

4.0

Struggled for the first half to get into it. I considered DNFing it at one point, since I just couldn't get excited about reading it, but there was a point where something just clicked and I couldn't bring myself to put it down.

I wish I had more experience reading fantasy to see how this breaks the typical molds and cliches of the genre (since I heard that this series does a really good job of that), but unfortunately I'm still a fairly new fantasy reader. 

I definitely plant to read the next book in the series after a little break. I need some time to finish some shorter books because this beast took me nearly 4 months to finish lol