A review by vinayvasan
The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick

3.0

A difficult to review book which has as many things going for it as it has against. Invoking the best of Scott Lynch (in terms of the Renaissance Italian setting) and Robin Hobb (in terms of a young troubled disadvantaged protagonist), this is a coming of age tale that keeps you turning the page being so wonderfully written. On the flip side, it seems to be a remarkably small world, with the same people turning up on most occasions (#CoincidenceMuch) and not so much world building in what looks an intriguing world. As a result of it, things just rus through. While the ending is satisfying to an extent, it could have been much much more....