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A review by clemslibrary
The Fireborne Blade by Charlotte Bond
3.75
Thank you to NetGalley for sending me an e-arc in return for and honest review!
The Fireborne Blade is a gripping fantasy novella following a knight on her journey to reclaim her standing and honour
The way the story itself is told was super cool and engaging - we flit between multiple timelines and voices, we mostly focus on Maddileh on her journey to retrieve the fireborne blade, but we also see her 3 and 6 months before the commencement of her quest, and also have chapters from pieces of a book and past knights. I really enjoyed this and it meant that we could learn about the world without the narrator needing to info-dump all at once.
I did really enjoy learning about the world and the beginning of the quest, and liked the way the characters are set up and made to act around one another.
However i do feel as though this suffered from being too short, the book being a novella meant that the plot twist, reveal and subsequent revenge did not have enough time on the page and it felt like it was just being thrown at the reader with no further exploration or depth. By having no lead up to these events they came out of nowhere and didn’t seem to have past story to back up and make sense of these sudden changes.
The dragon lore within his was engaging and my favourite part of the book, and i wish we could have had more time with the actual dragons rather than the journey itself to the dragons.
The Fireborne Blade is a gripping fantasy novella following a knight on her journey to reclaim her standing and honour
The way the story itself is told was super cool and engaging - we flit between multiple timelines and voices, we mostly focus on Maddileh on her journey to retrieve the fireborne blade, but we also see her 3 and 6 months before the commencement of her quest, and also have chapters from pieces of a book and past knights. I really enjoyed this and it meant that we could learn about the world without the narrator needing to info-dump all at once.
I did really enjoy learning about the world and the beginning of the quest, and liked the way the characters are set up and made to act around one another.
However i do feel as though this suffered from being too short, the book being a novella meant that the plot twist, reveal and subsequent revenge did not have enough time on the page and it felt like it was just being thrown at the reader with no further exploration or depth. By having no lead up to these events they came out of nowhere and didn’t seem to have past story to back up and make sense of these sudden changes.
The dragon lore within his was engaging and my favourite part of the book, and i wish we could have had more time with the actual dragons rather than the journey itself to the dragons.