A review by megangoodwin
The Black Knife by Jodi Meadows

3.0

A major thing bothers me about this novella: no killing. Now I'm not a psychopath or a fan of gratuitous violence, but the black and white viewpoint of this just irritated me. Like Tobiah and James were up against eleven fighters. If you only injure them, you're either going to get captured or killed, most likely the latter. I get that killing is awful and a terrible burden, but it is unrealistic that they could get out of that situation without getting blood on their hands. Also the deaths that did occur where "accidental" and really convenient. That whole situation just made it hard to believe in the reality of the story. But other than that, I liked seeing Tobiah's progression as Black Knife. I especially liked how they were trying to figure out his manifesto. So meta.