wmmcmanlypants 's review for:

The Emperor's Blades by Brian Staveley
4.0

I gave this four, which I’ll keep, but then I read other reviews and I didn’t realize how much other annoying stuff I noticed but in audiobook form during a road trip I didn’t fully catch. “Kent-kissing” = just no. The character arcs were very fast at ramping into something convenient in the end because that’s where the characters needed to be. I kept getting bored by the monastery scenes even though they were supposed to be the most interesting. Adair’s chapters were the best but her ending felt weird to me as did the two brothers’.