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ricottae 's review for:
The Emperor's Blades
by Brian Staveley
The Emperor's Blades has a lot of elements that make up a good fantasy: characters that have cool traits/experience, a complex world with political machinations, build up of the plot... It just fell a little flat for me. The last two pages of the chapter would be interesting, and then we'd flip back to a different character and dear god have to work through that story again. Over and over. And then randomly for like three chapters the sister's POV got stuck in. It was like the author wanted to write a female character and didn't know how or what to do with her, so he mostly ignored her. I'm hoping the second book starts to move the show along otherwise it's going to be a total snoozefest.