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A review by summerthelibrarian
Seventhblade by Tonia Laird
Did not finish book. Stopped at 60%.
DNF at around 60% because the audio just wasn't clicking for me. However, I do think that's far enough to give a fair review, because I think this book would be a smash hit in the right hands.
Some notes:
-The main character’s name is T’Rayles which is pronounced “Tara-lees” (thank you audio, absolutlely no chance i woulda gotten that one right in print....
-There is a significant amount of fictional words such as titles, names, regions and languages, listening on audio does give this an advantage to the pronounciation. However I found it really hard to keep everything straight on audio, which is ultimately why i set it aside.
-Author is a Michif Canadian author, so she belongs to a very small group of indigenous people from canada.
This book really reminded me of the [book:Children of Blood and Bone|34728667] series, except the MC is an adult, not a teen. There are a lot of similar themes such as magic, racism, xenophobia, colonialism, and fighting back against oppressors. There is a lot of good stuff here and if you liked that, I would recommend this as well.
Some notes:
-The main character’s name is T’Rayles which is pronounced “Tara-lees” (thank you audio, absolutlely no chance i woulda gotten that one right in print....
-There is a significant amount of fictional words such as titles, names, regions and languages, listening on audio does give this an advantage to the pronounciation. However I found it really hard to keep everything straight on audio, which is ultimately why i set it aside.
-Author is a Michif Canadian author, so she belongs to a very small group of indigenous people from canada.
This book really reminded me of the [book:Children of Blood and Bone|34728667] series, except the MC is an adult, not a teen. There are a lot of similar themes such as magic, racism, xenophobia, colonialism, and fighting back against oppressors. There is a lot of good stuff here and if you liked that, I would recommend this as well.