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dinbee 's review for:
The Emperor's Blades
by Brian Staveley
The high rating for this book is well-deserved. The story is a little bit dragged out, but I never once found myself bored by the details. Mr. Staveley is quite the eloquent writer. The action scenes lack the power punch I've come to associate with other high-rating fantasy books, but it's one flaw I'm able to overlook. What I'm NOT able to let go, however is how weak the supposed female protagonist is written. Granted, she only has less than 5 (?) chapters to her name but those chapters were supposed to be at the thick of it all: in the Palace itself. So why does it feel like Adare is just flotsam that's being lugged around by the tide? I'm sincerely hoping she gets to be more kickass in the next book.