tam_townsend 's review for:

By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar

0.5

Strong character development: No

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Crass and juvenile to no real end. In what is perhaps some kind of meta- commentary, the title is quoted every three chapters or so in order to beat the reader over the head with the author’s message about violence and political power. Doesn’t bring anything particularly new to Arthuriana except perhaps the bit where Guinevere is a ninja. There are far better and more interesting subversive retellings